Robin Netherton (Editor), Gale R. Owen-Crocker (Editor)
Hardcover: 182 pages
Publisher: Boydell Press (18 July 2013)
ISBN-13: 978-1843838562
BOOK DESCRIPTION:
Topics in this volume range widely throughout the European middle ages. Three contributions concern terminology for dress. Two deal with multicultural medieval Apulia: an examination of clothing terms in surviving marriage contracts from the tenth to the fourteenth century, and a close focus on an illuminated document made for a prestigious wedding. Turning to Scandinavia, there is an analysis of clothing materials from Norway and Sweden according to gender and social distribution. Further papers consider the economic uses of cloth and clothing: wool production and the dress of the Cistercian community at Beaulieu Abbey based on its 1269-1270 account book, and the use of clothing as pledge or payment in medieval Ireland. In addition, there is a consideration of the history of dagged clothing and its negative significance to moralists, and of the painted hangings that were common in homes of all classes in the sixteenth century. Robin Netherton is a professional editor and a researcher/lecturer on the interpretation of medieval European dress; Gale R. Owen-Crocker is Professor of Anglo-Saxon Culture at the University of Manchester. Contributors: Antonietta Amati, Eva I. Andersson, John Block Friedman, Susan James, John Oldland, Lucia Sinisi, Mark Zumbuhl
CONTENTS:
- Preface
- Bridal Gifts in Medieval Bari
- The Marriage of the Year [1028]
- Clothing as Currency in Pre-Norman Ireland?
- Cistercian Clothing and Its Production at Beaulieu Abbey, 1269-70
- Clothing and Textile Materials in Medieval Sweden and Norway
- The Iconography of Dagged Clothing and Its Reception by Moralist Writers
- Domestic Painted Cloths in Sixteenth-Century England: Imagery, Placement, and Ownership
- Recent Books of Interest
- Contents of Previous Volumes
