Medieval fabrications : dress, textiles, clothwork, and other cultural imaginings
Entry/Object ID
GT575.M43 2004
Description
The varied cultural functions of dress, textiles and clothwork provide an especially cogent lens through which to re-examine our assumptions about the Middle Ages because of the topic's conceptual breadth. Its implications range from the highly theoretical to the very concrete. At one end of the spectrum, questions of dress call up feminist theoretical investigations into the body and subjectivity, while broadening those inquiries to include theories of masculinity as well. At the other extreme, the production and distribution of textiles carries us into the domain of economic history and the study of material commodities, trade and cultural patterns of exchange within western Europe and between east and west. Contributors to this volume represent a broad array of disciplines currently involved in rethinking medieval culture in terms of the material world.
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Nancy Micklewright
Notes
Gift of Nancy Micklewright, July 2025.
Lexicon
Search Terms
clothing and dress--history--medieval, 500-1500, clothing and dress--symbolic aspects--europe, textile fabrics, medieval
Legacy Lexicon
Category
Book
Book Details
Editor
E. Jane Burns
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Place Published
City
New York
Date Published
2004
ISBN
9781403961877, 1403961875
Notes
Length: 279
General Notes
Note Type
Contents
Note
Why textiles make a difference / E. Jane Burns -- Text and textile : Lydgate's tapestry poems / Claire Sponsler -- Tristan slippers : an image of adultery or a symbol of marriage? / Kathryn Starkey -- Dressing and undressing the clergy : rites of ordination and degradation / Dyan Elliott -- Uncovering Griselda : Christine de Pizan, "une seule chemise," and the clerical tradition : Boccaccio, Petrarch, Philippe de Mézières and the ménagier de Paris / Roberta L. Krueger -- "This skill in a woman is by no means to be despised" : weaving and the gender division of labor in the Middle Ages / Ruth Mazo Karras -- Tucks and darts : adjusting patterns to fit figures for stained glass windows around 1200 / Madeline H. Caviness -- Limiting yardage and changes of clothes : sumptuary legislation in thirteenth-century France, Languedoc, and Italy / Sarah-Grace Heller -- Material and symbolic gift giving : clothes in English and French wills / Kathleen Ashley -- Cloth from the promised land : appropriated Islamic Tiraz in twelfth-century French sculpture / Janet Snyder -- Almería silk and the French feudal imaginary : toward a "material" history of the medieval Mediterranean / Sharon Kinoshita -- How philosophy matters : death, sex, clothes, and Boethius / Andrea Denny-Brown -- Flayed skin as objet a : representation and materiality in Guillaume de Deguileville's Pèlerinage de vie humaine / Sarah Kay.
