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Courtly Love Undressed: Reading Through Clothes in Medieval French Culture (The Middle Ages Series)
E. Jane Burns
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Description for Courtly Love Undressed: Reading Through Clothes in Medieval French Culture (The Middle Ages Series)
Paperback. In the later Middle Ages, clothing was used to mark religious, military, and chivalric orders. This book explores the representation of this material culture in the literary texts, and other documents that imagine various functions for elite clothing in twelfth- and thirteenth-century France. Series: The Middle Ages Series. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: ACG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 21. Weight in Grams: 528.
Clothing was used in the Middle Ages to mark religious, military, and chivalric orders, lepers, and prostitutes. The ostentatious display of luxury dress more specifically served as a means of self-definition for members of the ruling elite and the courtly lovers among them. In Courtly Love Undressed, E. Jane Burns unfolds the rich display of costly garments worn by amorous partners in literary texts and other cultural documents in the French High Middle Ages. Burns reads through clothes in lyric, romance, and didactic literary works, vernacular sermons, and sumptuary laws to show how ... Read more
Clothing was used in the Middle Ages to mark religious, military, and chivalric orders, lepers, and prostitutes. The ostentatious display of luxury dress more specifically served as a means of self-definition for members of the ruling elite and the courtly lovers among them. In Courtly Love Undressed, E. Jane Burns unfolds the rich display of costly garments worn by amorous partners in literary texts and other cultural documents in the French High Middle Ages. Burns reads through clothes in lyric, romance, and didactic literary works, vernacular sermons, and sumptuary laws to show how ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Series
The Middle Ages Series
Condition
New
Weight
527g
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780812219302
SKU
V9780812219302
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About E. Jane Burns
E. Jane Burns is L. M. Slifkin Distinguished Term Professor and Chair of the Curriculum in Women's Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She is author of Bodytalk: When Women Speak in Old French Literature, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.
Reviews for Courtly Love Undressed: Reading Through Clothes in Medieval French Culture (The Middle Ages Series)
Burns evinces a clear mastery of the subtleties of the array of primary texts she uses. . . . Her bibliography of both primary and secondary sources is substantial and well-rounded. Though history plays a part in her readings, her focus is squarely on the literary text. Her close readings are impressive in their analyses and command of the polyvalence ... Read more