Product details:
| ISBN13: | 9781783273089 |
| ISBN10: | 1783273089 |
| Binding: | Hardback |
| No. of pages: | 200 pages |
| Size: | 234x156 mm |
| Weight: | 474 g |
| Language: | English |
| Illustrations: | 2 colour, 17 b/w, 41 line illus. Illustrations, black & white |
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Medieval Clothing and Textiles 14
Series:
Medieval Clothing and Textiles;
Volume 14;
Publisher: Boydell Press
Date of Publication: 20 April 2018
Number of Volumes: Print PDF
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Short description:
The best new research on medieval clothing and textiles, drawing from a range of disciplines.
Long description:
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 H?skuldsson, Olga Magoula, Megan Tiddeman, Monica L. Wright
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 H?skuldsson, Olga Magoula, Megan Tiddeman, Monica L. Wright
Table of Contents:
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 H?skuldsson
Recent Books of Interest
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 H?skuldsson
Recent Books of Interest
