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Encountering Medieval Textiles and Dress: Objects, Texts, Images
Desiree G. Koslin (Ed.)
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Description for Encountering Medieval Textiles and Dress: Objects, Texts, Images
Hardcover. This collection of essays focuses on multiple aspects of textiles and dress, their making, meaning, and representation and explores the impact of international trade and other forms of cultural exchange. They include perspectives of archaeology, economics, religion and material culture. Editor(s): Koslin, Desiree G.; Snyder, Janet. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 284 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 3F; 3H; AFW; HBJD1; HBLC; JFCK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 433.
In this wide-ranging study of costume history contributors explore fashion, textiles, and the representation of clothing in the middle ages. Essays combine the perspectives of archaeology, art history, economics, religion, costume history, material culture, and literary criticism and explore materials from England, France, the Low Countries, Scandinavia, Germany, Italy, and Ireland. The collection focuses on multiple aspects of textiles and dress - their making, meaning, and representation - and explores the impact of international trade and other forms of cultural exchange.
In this wide-ranging study of costume history contributors explore fashion, textiles, and the representation of clothing in the middle ages. Essays combine the perspectives of archaeology, art history, economics, religion, costume history, material culture, and literary criticism and explore materials from England, France, the Low Countries, Scandinavia, Germany, Italy, and Ireland. The collection focuses on multiple aspects of textiles and dress - their making, meaning, and representation - and explores the impact of international trade and other forms of cultural exchange.
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Series
The New Middle Ages
Condition
New
Number of Pages
270
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, United States
ISBN
9780312293772
SKU
V9780312293772
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Ref
99-15
About Desiree G. Koslin (Ed.)
DESIREE KOSLIN teaches at SUNY's Fashion Institute of Technology in the graduate Museum Studies Costume and Textile Department. JANET SNYDER teaches the History of Art and Architecture in the Division of Art of the College of Creative Arts at West Virginia University.
Reviews for Encountering Medieval Textiles and Dress: Objects, Texts, Images
An outstanding series of essays by historians, art historians, and literary specialists on a wide variety of topics in medieval textiles, from manufacture and use, to style, fashion, iconography, and the many shades of social meaning. - William W. Clark, Queens College and the Graduate Center, CUNY ... Read more