Dressing the part : textiles as propaganda in the Middle Ages / Kate Dimitrova, Margaret Goehring (eds.).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dimitrova, Kate, editor.

Goehring, Margaret, editor.

Ganz, David, contributor.

Woodfin, Warren T. (Warren Theriot), 1974- contributor.

Schilb, Henry, contributor.

Elster, Christiane, contributor.

Seeberg, Stefanie, contributor.

Böse, Kristin, contributor.

Walden, Catherine, contributor.

Wetter, Evelin, 1969- contributor.

Courts, Jennifer E., contributor.

Kadoi, Yuka, contributor.

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Clothing and dress--Social aspects--History.

Clothing and dress.

Middle Ages--Social life and customs.

Middle Ages.

Clothing and dress--Social aspects.

History.

Physical Description:

213 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm

Place of Publication:

Turnhout : Brepols, [2014]

Contents:

Introduction / Kate Dimitrova and Margaret Goehring

Pictorial textiles and their performance: the Star Mantle of Henry II / David Ganz

Orthodox liturgical textiles and clerical self-referentiality / Warren T. Woodfin

The Epitaphoi of Stephen the Great / Henry Schilb

Liturgical textiles as papal donations in late medieval Italy / Christiane Elster

Monument in linen: a thirteenth-century embroidered catafalque cover for the members of the Beata Stirps of Saint Elizabeth of Hungary / Stefanie Seeberg

Cultures re-shaped: textiles from the Castilian royal tombs in Santa Maria de las Huelgas in Burgos / Kristin Böse

'So lyvely in cullers and gilting': vestments on Episcopal tomb effigies in England / Catherine Walden

Material evidence, theological requirements and medial transformation: 'textile strategies' in the court art of Charles IV / Evelin Wetter

Weaving legitimacy: the Jouvenel des Ursins family and the construction of nobility in fifteenth-century France / Jennifer E. Courts

Textiles in the Great Mongol Shahnama: a new approach to Ilkhanid dress / Yuko [sic] Kadoi

Notes to the text.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-213).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

250353676X

9782503536767

OCLC:

829755149

Publisher Number:

99963589184