Product details:
| ISBN13: | 9781843839323 |
| ISBN10: | 1843839326 |
| Binding: | Hardback |
| No. of pages: | 432 pages |
| Size: | 244x172 mm |
| Weight: | 1246 g |
| Language: | English |
| Illustrations: | 8 colour illus. Illustrations, color |
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Medieval Dress and Textiles in Britain
A Multilingual Sourcebook
Publisher: Boydell Press
Date of Publication: 16 October 2014
Number of Volumes: Print PDF
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Short description:
A vital sourcebook for information on clothing and textiles in the middle ages, containing many previously unprinted documents.
Long description:
A vital sourcebook for information on clothing and textiles in the middle ages, containing many previously unprinted documents.
Texts (with modern English translation) offering insights into the place of cloth and clothing in everyday life are presented here. Covering a wide range of genres, they include documents from the royal wardrobe accounts and petitions to king and Parliament, previously available only in manuscript form. The accounts detail royal expenditure on fabrics and garments, while the petitions demand the restoration of livery, for example, or protest about the needfor winter clothing for children who are wards of the king. In addition, the volume includes extracts from wills, inventories and rolls of livery, sumptuary laws, moral and satirical works condemning contemporary fashions, an OldEnglish epic, and English and French romances. The texts themselves are in Old and Middle English, Latin and Anglo-Norman French, with some of the documents switching between more than one of these languages. They are presented with introduction, glossary and detailed notes.
Louise M. Sylvester is Reader in English Language at the University of Westminster; Mark Chambers is a Post-Doctoral Research Associate at Durham University; Gale R. Owen-Crocker is Professor of Anglo-Saxon Culture at the University of Manchester.
Texts (with modern English translation) offering insights into the place of cloth and clothing in everyday life are presented here. Covering a wide range of genres, they include documents from the royal wardrobe accounts and petitions to king and Parliament, previously available only in manuscript form. The accounts detail royal expenditure on fabrics and garments, while the petitions demand the restoration of livery, for example, or protest about the needfor winter clothing for children who are wards of the king. In addition, the volume includes extracts from wills, inventories and rolls of livery, sumptuary laws, moral and satirical works condemning contemporary fashions, an OldEnglish epic, and English and French romances. The texts themselves are in Old and Middle English, Latin and Anglo-Norman French, with some of the documents switching between more than one of these languages. They are presented with introduction, glossary and detailed notes.
Louise M. Sylvester is Reader in English Language at the University of Westminster; Mark Chambers is a Post-Doctoral Research Associate at Durham University; Gale R. Owen-Crocker is Professor of Anglo-Saxon Culture at the University of Manchester.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Wills
Accounts
Inventories and Rolls of Livery
Moral and Satirical Works
Sumptuary Regulation, Statutes and the Rolls of Parliament
Unpublished Petitions to King, Council and Parliament
Epic and Romance
Glossary
Bibliography
Wills
Accounts
Inventories and Rolls of Livery
Moral and Satirical Works
Sumptuary Regulation, Statutes and the Rolls of Parliament
Unpublished Petitions to King, Council and Parliament
Epic and Romance
Glossary
Bibliography
