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Medieval Clothing and Textiles
Robin Netherton
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Description for Medieval Clothing and Textiles
Hardcover. Features a focus on headdress, with papers analysing women's turbans in fifteenth-century French manuscript paintings; the changing meaning of the term cuff; the spread of wimple from England to Southern Italy; and a surviving embroidered linen cap attributed to Saint Birgitta of Sweden. Editor(s): Netherton, Robin; Owen-Crocker, Gale R. Num Pages: 242 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3H; JFCK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 164 x 19. Weight in Grams: 522.
The best new research on medieval clothing and textiles, drawing from a range of disciplines and with a special focus on reconstruction. The fourth volume of this landmark series features a special focus on headdress, with papers analysing women's turbans in fifteenth-century French manuscript paintings; the changing meaning of the term cuff; the spread of wimple from England to Southern Italy; and a surviving embroidered linen cap attributed to Saint Birgitta of Sweden. Northern European dress and textiles are further explored in papers on archaeological textiles from medieval towns in Finland, Norway, and Sweden; the construction of gowns excavated ... Read more
The best new research on medieval clothing and textiles, drawing from a range of disciplines and with a special focus on reconstruction. The fourth volume of this landmark series features a special focus on headdress, with papers analysing women's turbans in fifteenth-century French manuscript paintings; the changing meaning of the term cuff; the spread of wimple from England to Southern Italy; and a surviving embroidered linen cap attributed to Saint Birgitta of Sweden. Northern European dress and textiles are further explored in papers on archaeological textiles from medieval towns in Finland, Norway, and Sweden; the construction of gowns excavated ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
242
Condition
New
Number of Pages
242
Place of Publication
Woodbridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781843833666
SKU
V9781843833666
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Ref
99-15
About Robin Netherton
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
The essays are all of uniformly high quality, imaginative, thoughtful, well researched and well written. Whether presenting entirely new material or reevaluating known examples and earlier research, all the authors have new and intriguing arguments to make, supported by solid evidence and methodology.
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