Medieval Fabrications. Dress, Textiles, Clothwork, and Other Cultural Imaginings


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CODICE: ISBN 1403961875 EAN 9781403961877
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Medieval Fabrications. Dress, Textiles, Clothwork, and Other Cultural Imaginings

PREZZO : EUR 111,50€

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ISBN 1403961875
EAN 9781403961877

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Edited by: Contributors: , , , , , , , , , , , ,

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2004

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Disponibile

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288 pages
25 b&w illustrations
Paperback
cm 14 x 21 x 1,7
gr 420

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Publisher's description and from the back cover:
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.

"Medieval Fabrications investigates the material and ideological history of clothing and textiles. Choosing dress as a category of analysis yields important data and insights concerning its cultural importance. These essays investigate such topics as the symbolic functions of dress, its social meanings, and its coparticipation with the body in producing identity."--Susan Crane, Columbia University
"A fitting sequel to Jane Burns's Courtly Love Undressed, this innovative collection makes a major contribution to the opening of a new and genuinely interdisciplinary field within medieval studies. Both building on and complicating the recent scholarly focus on the body, this collection explores the multifaceted coverings that overlay medieval sartorial bodies and through which, as the authors amply demonstrate, they must be understood. Especially significant is the way this careful attention to material culture participates in the current reconfiguration of our understanding of the valences assigned to Islamic and Byzantine cultures in the medieval West. This exemplary book irrefutably demonstrates the importance of clothing to medieval studies and has made this reader aware of how much she has taken for granted in representations of the clothed medieval subject."
Pamela Sheingorn, Baruch College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York

Contents:
page 1 Introduction: Why Textiles Make a Difference, E. Jane Burns
19 One: Text and Textile: Lydgate's Tapestry Poems, Claire Sponsler
35 Two: Tristan Slippers: An Image of Adultery or a Symbol of Marriage?, Kathryn Starkey
55 Three: Dressing and Undressing the Clergy: Rites of Ordination and Degradation, Dyan Elliott
71 Four: Uncovering Griselda: Christine de Pizan, 'une seule chemise', and the Clerical Tradition: Boccaccio, Petrarch, Phlippe de Mézières and the Ménagier de Paris, Roberta L. Krueger
89 Five: "This Skill in a Woman is By No Means to be Despised": Weaving and the Gender Division of Labor in the Middle Ages, Ruth Mazo Karras
105 Six: Tucks and Darts: Adjusting Patterns for Stained Glass Windows Around 1200, Madeline H. Caviness
121 Seven: Limiting Yardage and Changes of Clothes: Sumptuary Legislation in Thirteenth-Century France, Languedoc and Italy, Sarah-Grace Heller
137 Eight: Material and Symbolic Gift Giving: Clothes in English and French Wills, Kathleen Ashley
147 Nine: Cloth From the Promised Land: Appropriated Islamic Tiraz in Twelfth-Century French Sculpture, Janet Snyder
165 Ten: Almería Silk and the French Feudal Imaginary: Towards a "Material" History of the Medieval Mediterranean, Sharon Kinoshita
177 Eleven: How Philosophy Matters: Sex, Death, Clothes, and Boethius, Andrea Denny-Brown
193 Twelve: Flayed Skin as an Object: Representation and Materiality in Guillaume de Deguileville's Pèlerinage de vie humaine, Sarah Kay
207 Notes
252 Works Cited
273 Author Biographies
275 Index.


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