Medieval Clothing and Textiles 13 - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1783272155 ISBN 13: 9781783272150

Verlag: Boydell Press, 2017

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An excellent collection... it provides both new information and new perspectives on studying the medieval clothing culture through a comparative and interdisciplinary approach. JOURNAL OF DRESS HISTORY

Reseña del editor:

Three of the essays in this collection focus on Italy, with contributions on footwear in Lucca based on documentary evidence of the fourteenth century; aristocratic furnishings as described in a royal letter of the fifteenth century, along with its first translation into English; and Boccaccio's treatment of disguise involving Christian/Islamic identity shifts in his Decameron. The Bayeux Tapestry is discussed as a narrative artwork that adopts various costumes for semiotic purposes. Another chapter considers surviving artefacts: a detailed study of a piece of quilted fabric armour, one of two such items surviving in Lübeck, Germany, reveals how it was made and suggests reasons for some of the unusual features. The volume also includes an investigation of the commercial vocabulary related to the medieval textile and fur industries: the terms used in Britain for measuring textile and fur are listed and discussed, especially the unique use of Anglo-French "launces" in a document of 1300.

Contributors: Jane Bridgeman, Mark C. Chambers, Jessica Finley, Ana Grinberg, Christine Meek, Gale R. Owen-Crocker

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• Verlag: Boydell Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1783272155
• ISBN 13: 9781783272150
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 184
• Herausgeber: Netherton Robin, Owen-Crocker Gale R