Name/Title
Encountering medieval textiles and dress : objects, texts, imagesEntry/Object ID
GT575.E53 2002Description
This broad-reaching collection of essays constitutes a thorough introduction to the fields and methodologies concerned with studies of textiles and dress of the Middle Ages. New themes and critical viewpoints from many disciplines are brought to bear on the medieval material in the areas of archaeology, art and architecture, economics, law, history, literature, religion, and textile technology. The contributors address surviving objects and artifacts and interpret representations in texts and images. The articles extend in time from the fifth to the sixteenth centuries, and cover Europe from Scandinavia, England, and Ireland in the north, to Italy and the Mediterranean basin in the south. Emphasis is placed on the significant role of trade and cultural exchanges as they impact appearance and its constituent materials.Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Nancy MicklewrightNotes
Gift of Nancy Micklewright, July 2025.Lexicon
Search Terms
clothing and dress--history--medieval, 500-1500, clothing and dress--symbolic aspects, clothing and dress in art, textile fabrics--medievalBook Details
Editor
Désirée G. Koslin, Janet E. SnyderPublisher
Palgrave MacmillanDate Published
2002ISBN
9780312293772, 0312293771LCCN
2002068444Notes
Length: 270General Notes
Note Type
ContentsNote
Appearance and ideology: creating distinctions between clerics and lay persons in early medieval Gaul / Bonnie Effros -- From self-sufficiency to commerce: structural and artifactual evidence for textile manufacture in Eastern England in the pre-conquest period / Nina Crummy -- Dressing the part: depictions of noble costume in Irish high crosses / Margaret McEnchroe Williams -- Marie de France's Bisclavret: what the werewolf will and will not wear / Gloria Thomas Gilmore -- From content to form: court clothing in mid-twelfth-century northern French sculpture / Jane Snyder -- Fashion in French crusade literature: desiring infidel textiles / Sarah-Grace Heller -- "Christ as a windblown sleeve": The ambiguity of clothing as sign in Gottfried von Strassburg's Tristan / Margarita Yanson -- Addressing the law: costume as signifier in Medieval legal miniatures / Susan L'Engle -- From battlefield to court: the invention of fashion in the fourteenth century / Odile Blanc -- Unraveling the mystery of Jan van Eyck's cloths of honor: the Ghent Altarpiece / Donna M. Cottrell -- Marked difference: earrings and "the other" in fifteenth-century Flemish art / Penny Howell Jolly -- The Margaret Fitzgerald tomb effigy: a late medieval headdress and gown in St. Canice's cathedral, Kilkenny / Elizabeth Wincott Heckett -- "As proud as a dog in a doublet": the importance of clothing in The shoemaker's holiday / Linda Anderson -- Value-added stuffs and shifts in meaning: an overview and case study of medieval textile paradigms / Désirée Koslin.