Publisher's description:
This volume continues the series' tradition of bringing together work on clothing and textiles from across Europe. It has a strong focus on gold: subjects include sixth-century German burials containing sumptuous jewellery and bands brocaded with gold; the textual evidence for recycling such gold borders and bands in the later Anglo-Saxon period; and a semantic classification of words relating to gold in multi-lingual medieval Britain. It also rescues significant archaeological textiles from obscurity: there is a discussion of early medieval headdresses from The Netherlands, and an examination of a fifteenth-century Italian cushion, an early example of piecework. Finally, uses of dress and textiles in literature are explored in a survey of the Welsh Mabinogion and Jean Renart's Roman de la Rose.
Contents:
1 Preface
2 The Unterhaching Grave Finds: Richly Dressed Burials from Sixth-Century Bavaria
3 Old Finds Rediscovered: Two Early Medieval Headdresses from the National Museum of Antiquities, Leiden, the Netherlands
4 Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: Imagined and Reimagined Textiles in Anglo-Saxon England
5 Mining for Gold: Investigating a Semantic Classification in the Lexis of Cloth and Clothing Project
6 Dress and Dignity in the Mabinogion
7 Dressing for Success: How the Heroine's Clothing [Un]Makes the Man in Jean Renart's Roman de la Rose
8 Anomaly or Sole Survivor? The Impruneta Cushion and Early Italian "Patchwork"
9 Recent Books of Interest
10 Contents of Previous Volumes.