Medieval Clothing and Textiles 15

Robin Netherton is a costume historian specializing in Western European clothing of the Middle Ages and its interpretation by artists and historians. Gale R. Owen-Crocker is Professor Emerita of the University of Manchester where she was previously Professor of Anglo-Saxon Culture and Director of the Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies. Monica L. Wright is the Granger and Debaillon Professor of French and Medieval Studies at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA. Her research focuses on the use of clothing in medieval French literature. Gale R. Owen-Crocker is Professor Emerita of the University of Manchester where she was previously Professor of Anglo-Saxon Culture and Director of the Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies. MAREN CLEGG HYER teaches at Snow College in Ephraim, Utah. She specializes in researching textiles and other elements of material culture in the literary imagery of early medieval England.

The seven articles in this issue exhibit the excellent scholarship for which the series is known.

• PrefaceOld Rags, New Responses: Medieval Dress and Textiles - Gale R. Owen-CrockerText/Textile: "Wordweaving" in the Literatures of Anglo-Saxon England - Maren Clegg HyerUnfolding Identities: The Intertextual Roles of Clothing in the Nibelungenlied and Völsunga Saga - Elizabeth M. SwedoClothing and Textiles at the Court of King John of England, 1199-1216 - Hugh M ThomasDressing the Sacred: Medallion Silks and their Use in Western Medieval Europe - Tina AnderliniHabit Envy: Extra-Religious Groups, Attire, and the Search for Legitimation Outside the Institutionalized Religious Orders - Alejandra Concha SahliThe Loom, the Lady and her Family Chapels: Weaving Identity in Late Medieval Art - Joanne W. AndersonRecent Books of Interest