Dressing Up

Cultural Identity in Renaissance Europe
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-19-964518-3
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 378 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 732 g

Dressing Up shows why clothes made history and history can be about clothes. It imagines the Renaissance afresh by considering people´ s appearances: what they wore, how this made them move, what images they created, and how all this made people feel about themselves.

Using an astonishing array of sources, Ulinka Rublack argues that an appreciation of people´ s relationship to appearances and images is essential to an understanding of what it meant to live at this time - and ever since. We read about the head accountant of a sixteenth-century merchant firm who commissioned 136 images of himself elaborately dressed across a lifetime; students arguing with their mother about which clothes they could have; or Nuremberg women wearing false braids dyed red or green. This brilliantly illustrated book draws on a range of insights across the disciplines and allows us to see an entire period in new ways. In integrating its findings into larger arguments about consumption, visual culture, the Reformation, German history, and the relationship of European and global history, it promises to re-shape the field.

Zielgruppe

All those interested in the history of clothing and fashion and the cultural history of Renaissance and Early Modern Europe

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rublack, Ulinka

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Prologue

- 1: Introduction

- 2: Looking at the Self

- 3: The Look of Religion

- 4: Nationhood

- 5: Looking at Others

- 6: Clothes and Consumers

- 7: Bourgeios Taste and Emotional Styles

- Epilogue: An Old Regime of Dress?

- Notes

- Select Bibiliography

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Rublack, Ulinka
Ulinka Rublack teaches early modern European history at Cambridge University and is a Fellow of St John's College. One of the most original scholars of her generation, she has previously published The Crimes of Women in Early Modern Germany and Reformation Europe. She is editor of Gender in Early Modern German History and the Oxford University Press Concise Companion to History(2011).