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OverviewDuring the medieval period, people invested heavily in looking good. The finest fashions demanded careful chemistry and compounds imported from great distances and at considerable risk to merchants; the Church became a major consumer of both the richest and humblest varieties of cloth, shoes, and adornment; and vernacular poets began to embroider their stories with hundreds of verses describing a plethora of dress styles, fabrics, and shopping experiences. Drawing on a wealth of pictorial, textual and object sources, the volume examines how dress cultures developed – often to a degree of dazzling sophistication – between the years 800 to 1450. Beautifully illustrated with 90 images, A Cultural History of Dress and Fashion in the Medieval Age presents an overview of the period with essays on textiles, production and distribution, the body, belief, gender and sexuality, status, ethnicity, visual representations, and literary representations. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Professor Sarah-Grace Heller (Ohio State University, USA)Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic Weight: 0.480kg ISBN: 9781350204713ISBN 10: 1350204714 Pages: 256 Publication Date: 25 February 2021 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction Sarah-Grace Heller (Ohio State University, USA) Chapter 1 - Textiles Elizabeth Coatsworth (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK) and Gale R. Owen-Crocker (University of Manchester, UK) Chapter 2 - Production and Distribution Eva Andersson Strand (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) and Sarah-Grace Heller (Ohio State University, USA) Chapter 3 - The Body Guillemette Bolens (University of Geneva, Switzerland) and Sarah Brazil (University of Geneva, Switzerland) Chapter 4 - Belief Andrea Denny-Brown (University of California, Riverside, USA) Chapter 5 - Gender and Sexuality E. Jane Burns (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA) Chapter 6 - Status Laurel Ann Wilson (Fordham University, USA) Chapter 7 - Ethnicity Michele Hayeur Smith (Brown University, USA) Chapter 8 - Visual Representations Desiree Koslin (Fashion Institute of Technology, USA) Chapter 9 - Literary Representations Monica L. Wright (University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA) Notes Bibliography Notes on Contributors IndexReviewsAuthor InformationSarah-Grace Heller is Associate Professor at the Ohio State University, USA, specialising in French and Occitan medieval literature. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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