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"Medieval Fabrications investigates the material and ideological history of clothing and textiles. Choosing dress as a category of analysis yields important data and insights concerning its cultural importance. These essays investigate such topics as the symbolic functions of dress, its social meanings, and its coparticipation with the body in producing identity."--Susan Crane, Columbia University
"A fitting sequel to Jane Burns's Courtly Love Undressed, this innovative collection makes a major contribution to the opening of a new and genuinely interdisciplinary field within medieval studies. Both building on and complicating the recent scholarly focus on the body, this collection explores the multifaceted coverings that overlay medieval sartorial bodies and through which, as the authors amply demonstrate, they must be understood. Especially significant is the way this careful attention to material culture participates in the current reconfiguration of our understanding of the valences assigned to Islamic and Byzantine cultures in the medieval West. This exemplary book irrefutably demonstrates the importance of clothing to medieval studies and has made this reader aware of how much she has taken for granted in representations of the clothed medieval subject."--Pamela Sheingorn, Baruch College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York
"A fitting sequel to Jane Burns's Courtly Love Undressed, this innovative collection makes a major contribution to the opening of a new and genuinely interdisciplinary field within medieval studies. Both building on and complicating the recent scholarly focus on the body, this collection explores the multifaceted coverings that overlay medieval sartorial bodies and through which, as the authors amply demonstrate, they must be understood. Especially significant is the way this careful attention to material culture participates in the current reconfiguration of our understanding of the valences assigned to Islamic and Byzantine cultures in the medieval West. This exemplary book irrefutably demonstrates the importance of clothing to medieval studies and has made this reader aware of how much she has taken for granted in representations of the clothed medieval subject."--Pamela Sheingorn, Baruch College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York
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The varied cultural functions of dress, textiles and clothwork provide an especially cogent lens through which to re-examine our assumptions about the Middle Ages because of the topic's conceptual breadth. Its implications range from the highly theoretical to the very concrete. At one end of the spectrum, questions of dress call up feminist theoretical investigations into the body and subjectivity, while broadening those inquiries to include theories of masculinity as well. At the other extreme, the production and distribution of textiles carries us into the domain of economic history and the study of material commodities, trade and cultural patterns of exchange within western Europe and between east and west. Contributors to this volume represent a broad array of disciplines currently involved in rethinking medieval culture in terms of the material world.
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In 1910, Eleanor Hammond remarked that the relationship in medieval culture between poetry and the decorative arts-and especially between tapestry and poetry-awaited a full historical examination. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
sartorial body, slipper fragments, tapestry poems, orchard scene, skin ego, left jamb, imperishable material, clerical tradition, horizontal loom, social skin, sumptuary legislation, urban literature, flayed skin Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Low Countries, Chartres Cathedral, Cité des Dames, Latin Europe, Muses of Poetry, Philippe de Mézières, Christine's Gliselidis, Dirc Potter, Holy Land, Middle English, Near East, Roman de la Rose, Saint George, Bourges Cathedral, Grace Dieu, Jane Burns, King David, Middle Dutch New!
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In 1910, Eleanor Hammond remarked that the relationship in medieval culture between poetry and the decorative arts-and especially between tapestry and poetry-awaited a full historical examination. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
sartorial body, slipper fragments, tapestry poems, orchard scene, skin ego, left jamb, imperishable material, clerical tradition, horizontal loom, social skin, sumptuary legislation, urban literature, flayed skin Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Low Countries, Chartres Cathedral, Cité des Dames, Latin Europe, Muses of Poetry, Philippe de Mézières, Christine's Gliselidis, Dirc Potter, Holy Land, Middle English, Near East, Roman de la Rose, Saint George, Bourges Cathedral, Grace Dieu, Jane Burns, King David, Middle Dutch New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Courtly Love Undressed: Reading Through Clothes in Medieval French Culture (Middle Ages) by E. Jane Burns on 8 pages
- Islamic Textiles by Patricia L. Baker on 7 pages
- Framing Medieval Bodies by Sarah Kay on 5 pages
- Robes and Honor: The Medieval World of Investiture (The New Middle Ages) by Stewart Gordon on 5 pages
- The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius on 5 pages
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- Medieval Boundaries: Rethinking Difference in Old French Literature (The Middle Ages Series) by Sharon Kinoshita in Back Matter
- Medieval Clothing and Textiles 2 (Medieval Clothing and Textiles) (v. 2) by Gale R. Owen-Crocker (Editor) Robin Netherton (Editor) in Back Matter
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