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Medieval Clothing and Textiles 6
Robin Netherton (Ed.)
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Description for Medieval Clothing and Textiles 6
Hardback.
The best new research on medieval clothing and textiles, drawing from a range of disciplines. This sixth volume of Medieval Clothing and Textiles ranges widely, as ever, across England and Europe. It presents two groundbreaking articles in novel areas of textile and dress scholarship: an introduction to a previouslyunexamined class of embroidery (decorative manuscript repair), and an English-language overview of scholarly research on historical dress in Latvia. Among the other topics considered in the volume are two very different listingsof clothing items from medieval Germany: an invented lexicon by the mystic Hildegard of Bingen, and an accounting of specific ... Read more
The best new research on medieval clothing and textiles, drawing from a range of disciplines. This sixth volume of Medieval Clothing and Textiles ranges widely, as ever, across England and Europe. It presents two groundbreaking articles in novel areas of textile and dress scholarship: an introduction to a previouslyunexamined class of embroidery (decorative manuscript repair), and an English-language overview of scholarly research on historical dress in Latvia. Among the other topics considered in the volume are two very different listingsof clothing items from medieval Germany: an invented lexicon by the mystic Hildegard of Bingen, and an accounting of specific ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
174
Condition
New
Number of Pages
174
Place of Publication
Woodbridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781843835370
SKU
V9781843835370
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Ref
99-50
About Robin Netherton (Ed.)
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 ... Read more
Reviews for Medieval Clothing and Textiles 6
A number of most interesting articles that shed important light on the cultural significance of clothing and textiles for the medieval world.
MEDIAEVISTIK 24, 2011
As we have come to expect from this series, the latest volume [...] affords new insights into the material culture of the medieval world.
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A volume that transcends subject boundaries ... Read more
MEDIAEVISTIK 24, 2011
As we have come to expect from this series, the latest volume [...] affords new insights into the material culture of the medieval world.
TEXT
A volume that transcends subject boundaries ... Read more