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Medieval dress and textiles in Britain : a multilingual sourcebook / edited by Louise M. Sylvester, Mark C. Chambers & Gale R. Owen-Crocker.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Medieval and Renaissance clothing and textiles series.
- Medieval and Renaissance clothing and textiles series
- Language:
- English
- Multiple languages
- Subjects (All):
- Clothing and dress--Great Britain--History--Medieval, 500-1500.
- Clothing and dress.
- Textile fabrics, Medieval--Great Britain.
- Textile fabrics, Medieval.
- History.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- 412 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Woodbridge : The Boydell Press, 2014.
- Summary:
- Texts (with modern English translation) offering insights into the place of cloth and clothing in everyday life are presented here. Covering a wide range of genres, they include documents from the royal wardrobe accounts mid petitions to king and Parliament, previously available only in manuscript form. The accounts detail royal expenditure on fabrics and garments, while the petitions demand the restoration of livery, for example, or protest about the need for winter clothing for children who are wards of the king. In addition, the volume includes extracts from wills, inventories and rolls of livery, sumptuary laws, moral and satirical works condemning contemporary fashions, an Old English epic, and English and French romances. The texts themselves are in Old and Middle English, Latin and Anglo-Norman French, with some of the documents switching between more than one of these languages. They are presented with introduction, glossary and detailed notes. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- I Wills 9
- II Accounts 56
- III Inventories and Rolls of Livery 89
- IV Moral and Satirical Works 127
- V Sumptuary Regulation, Statutes and the Rolls of Parliament 198
- VI Unpublished Petitions to King, Council and Parliament 237
- VII Epic and Romance 260.
- Notes:
- Translated into English.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 401-412).
- ISBN:
- 9781843839323
- 1843839326
- OCLC:
- 890394720
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