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E.
Jane Burns, ed.
Medieval
Fabrications: Dress, Textiles, Clothwork and Other Cultural Imaginings.
Palgrave,
2005.
The
New Middle Ages series.
ISBN
1403961867.
Hardback.
138mm x
216mm.
288pp.
Publisher's
recommended price £50.00
The varied cultural
functions of dress, textiles, and clothwork are used in this collection
of essays to examine long-standing assumptions about the Middle Ages.
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 and queer
identity 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.
Contents:
Introduction: Why Textiles Make a Difference; E.J.Burns
Text and Textile: Lydgate's Tapestry Poems; C.Sponsler
Tristan Slippers: An Image of Adultery or a Symbol of Marriage?;
K.Starkey
Dressing and Undressing the Clergy: Rites of Ordination and
Degradation; D.Elliott
Uncovering Griselda: Christine de Pizan, 'une seule chemise' and the
Clerical Tradition' R.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; R.Mazo Karras
Tucks and Darts: Adjusting Patterns for Stained Glass Windows Around
1200; , M.H.Caviness
Sumptuary Legislation in Thirteenth-Century France, Languedoc and
Italy: Limiting Yardage and Change of Clothes; S.Heller
Material and Symbolic Gift Giving: Clothes in English and French Wills;
K.Ashley
Cloth From the Promised Land: Appropriated Islamic Tiraz in
Twelfth-Century French Sculpture; J.Snyder
Almeria Silk and the French Feudal Imaginary: Towards a 'Material'
History of the Medieval Mediterranean; S.Kinoshita
'How Philosophy Matters: Sex, Death, Clothes, and Boethius',
A.Denny-Brown
Flayed Skin as an Object: Representation and Materiality in Guillaume
de Deguileville's Pelerinage de la
Vie Humaine; S.Kay
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