Cultural History of Dress and Fashion in the Medieval Age

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

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Beskrivning

During the medieval period, people invested heavily in looking good. The finest fashions demanded careful chemistry and compounds imported from great distances and at considerable risk to merchants; the Church became a major consumer of both the richest and humblest varieties of cloth, shoes, and adornment; and vernacular poets began to embroider their stories with hundreds of verses describing a plethora of dress styles, fabrics, and shopping experiences.Drawing on a wealth of pictorial, textual and object sources, the volume examines how dress cultures developed – often to a degree of dazzling sophistication – between the years 800 to 1450.Beautifully illustrated with 90 images, A Cultural History of Dress and Fashion in the Medieval Age presents an overview of the period with essays on textiles, production and distribution, the body, belief, gender and sexuality, status, ethnicity, visual representations, and literary representations.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2021-02-25
Mått:166 x 242 x 18 mm
Vikt:440 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Cultural Histories Series
Antal sidor:256
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781350204713

Utforska kategorier

Kulturvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Modedesign och textilformgivning inom Kultur
Konsthistoria inom Kultur

Mer om författaren

Sarah-Grace Heller is Associate Professor at the Ohio State University, USA, specialising in French and Occitan medieval literature.

Innehållsförteckning

List of IllustrationsIntroductionSarah-Grace Heller (Ohio State University, USA)Chapter 1 – TextilesElizabeth Coatsworth (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK) and Gale R. Owen-Crocker (University of Manchester, UK)Chapter 2 – Production and DistributionEva Andersson Strand (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) and Sarah-Grace Heller (Ohio State University, USA)Chapter 3 – The BodyGuillemette Bolens (University of Geneva, Switzerland) and Sarah Brazil (University of Geneva, Switzerland)Chapter 4 – Belief Andrea Denny-Brown (University of California, Riverside, USA)Chapter 5 – Gender and SexualityE. Jane Burns (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA)Chapter 6 – StatusLaurel Ann Wilson (Fordham University, USA)Chapter 7 – Ethnicity Michèle Hayeur Smith (Brown University, USA)Chapter 8 – Visual RepresentationsDésirée Koslin (Fashion Institute of Technology, USA)Chapter 9 – Literary RepresentationsMonica L. Wright (University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA)NotesBibliographyNotes on ContributorsIndex