Medieval Clothing and Textiles 14

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-1-78327-308-9
Verlag: Boydell Press

Buch, Englisch, 200 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 473 g

Reihe: Medieval Clothing and Textiles

The best new research on medieval clothing and textiles, drawing from a range of disciplines.

The essays here continue in the Journal's tradition of drawing on a range of disciplines. Topics include evidence for dress in multicultural sixth-century Ravenna; the incidence of Byzantine and Oriental silks in ninth- tothirteenth-century Denmark; a new analysis of the chronology of and contexts for the French hood; an examination of the mysterious garment called a bliaut in French literature; a discussion of the vocabulary and loan wordsin Italian/Anglo-Norman mercantile transactions; and revelations that fashions in body hair were an important feature of women's appearance.

Contributors: John Block Friedman, Anne Hedeager Krag, Karen Margrethe Høskuldsson, Olga Magoula, Megan Tiddeman, Monica L. Wright

Autoren/Hrsg.

Netherton, Robin

Owen-Crocker, Gale R

Weitere Mitwirkende

Hedeager Krag, Anne

Friedman, John Block

Høskuldsson, Karen Margrethe

Tiddeman, Megan

Wright, Monica L

Magoula, Olga

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Mittelalterliche, neuzeitliche Archäologie (Europa)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Multicultural Clothing in Sixth-Century Ravenna - Olga Magoula
Byzantine and Oriental Silks in Denmark, 800-1200 - Anne Hedeager Krag
The Bliaut: An Examination of the Evidence in French Literary Sources - Monica L. Wright
Eyebrows, Hairlines, and "Hairs Less in Sight": Female Depilation in Late Medieval Europe - John Block Friedman
Lexical Exchange with Italian in the Textile and Wool Trades in the Thirteenth to Fifteenth Centuries - Megan Tiddeman
Hidden in Plain Black: The Secrets of the French Hood - Karen Margrethe Høskuldsson
Recent Books of Interest

Über Autor(innen)

Netherton, Robin
Robin Netherton is a costume historian specializing in Western European clothing of the Middle Ages and its interpretation by artists and historians.

Owen-Crocker, Gale R
Gale R. Owen-Crocker is Professor Emerita of the University of Manchester where she was previously Professor of Anglo-Saxon Culture and Director of the Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies.

Wright, Monica L
Monica L. Wright is the Granger and Debaillon Professor of French and Medieval Studies at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA. Her research focuses on the use of clothing in medieval French literature.