Medieval Clothing and Textiles 12
The best new research on medieval clothing and textiles, drawing from a range of disciplines.

The studies collected here range through art, artifacts, documentary text, and poetry, addressing both real and symbolic functions of dress and textiles. John Block Friedman breaks new ground with his article on clothing for pets and other animals, while Grzegorz Pac compares depictions of sacred and royal female dress and evaluates attempts to link them together. Jonathan C. Cooper describes the clothing of scholars in Scotland's three pre-Reformation universities and the effects of the Reformation upon it. Camilla Luise Dahl examines references to women's garments in probates and what they reveal about early modern fashions. Megan Cavell focuses on the treatment of textiles associated with the Holy of Holies in Old English biblical poetry. Frances Pritchard examines the iconography, heraldry, and inscriptions on a worn and repaired set of embroidered fifteenth-century orphreys to determine their origin.Finally, Thomas M. Izbicki summarizes evidence for the choice of white linen for the altar and the responsibilities of priests for keeping it clean and in good repair.
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Medieval Clothing and Textiles 12
The best new research on medieval clothing and textiles, drawing from a range of disciplines.

The studies collected here range through art, artifacts, documentary text, and poetry, addressing both real and symbolic functions of dress and textiles. John Block Friedman breaks new ground with his article on clothing for pets and other animals, while Grzegorz Pac compares depictions of sacred and royal female dress and evaluates attempts to link them together. Jonathan C. Cooper describes the clothing of scholars in Scotland's three pre-Reformation universities and the effects of the Reformation upon it. Camilla Luise Dahl examines references to women's garments in probates and what they reveal about early modern fashions. Megan Cavell focuses on the treatment of textiles associated with the Holy of Holies in Old English biblical poetry. Frances Pritchard examines the iconography, heraldry, and inscriptions on a worn and repaired set of embroidered fifteenth-century orphreys to determine their origin.Finally, Thomas M. Izbicki summarizes evidence for the choice of white linen for the altar and the responsibilities of priests for keeping it clean and in good repair.
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The best new research on medieval clothing and textiles, drawing from a range of disciplines.

The studies collected here range through art, artifacts, documentary text, and poetry, addressing both real and symbolic functions of dress and textiles. John Block Friedman breaks new ground with his article on clothing for pets and other animals, while Grzegorz Pac compares depictions of sacred and royal female dress and evaluates attempts to link them together. Jonathan C. Cooper describes the clothing of scholars in Scotland's three pre-Reformation universities and the effects of the Reformation upon it. Camilla Luise Dahl examines references to women's garments in probates and what they reveal about early modern fashions. Megan Cavell focuses on the treatment of textiles associated with the Holy of Holies in Old English biblical poetry. Frances Pritchard examines the iconography, heraldry, and inscriptions on a worn and repaired set of embroidered fifteenth-century orphreys to determine their origin.Finally, Thomas M. Izbicki summarizes evidence for the choice of white linen for the altar and the responsibilities of priests for keeping it clean and in good repair.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781783270897
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer, Limited
Publication date: 08/19/2016
Series: Medieval Clothing and Textiles , #12
Pages: 222
Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x (d)

About the Author

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

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.

Table of Contents

Illustrations vii

Tables x

Contributors xi

Preface xiii

1 The Attire of the Virgin Mary and Female Rulers in Iconographical Sources of the Ninth to Eleventh Centuries: Analogues, Interpretations, Misinterpretations Grzegorz Pac 1

2 Sails, Veils, and Tents: The Segl and Tabernacle of Old English Christ III and Exodus Megan Cavell 27

3 Linteamenia altari: The Care of Altar Linens in the Medieval Church Thomas M. Izbicki 41

4 Coats, Collars, and Capes: Royal Fashions for Animals in the Early Modern Period John Block Friedman 61

5 A Set of Late-Fifteenth-Century Orphreys Relating to Ludovico Buonvisi, a Luccbese Merchant, and Embroidered in a London Workshop Frances Pritchard 95

6 Academical Dress in Late Medieval and Renaissance Scotland Jonathan C. Cooper 109

7 Dressing the Bourgeoisie: Clothing in Probate Records of Danish Townswomen, ca. 1545-1610 Camilla Luise Dahl 131

Recent Books of Interest 195

Contents of Previous Volumes 203

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