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Book Cloth and Clothing in Medieval Europe

Download or read book Cloth and Clothing in Medieval Europe written by Eleanora Mary Carus-Wilson and published by London : Heinemann Educational Books ; [Edington] : Pasold Research Fund. This book was released on 1983 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Medieval Clothier

Download or read book The Medieval Clothier written by John S. Lee and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2018 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A clear and accessibly written guide to the medieval cloth-making trade in England.

Book Medieval Clothing and Textiles

Download or read book Medieval Clothing and Textiles written by Robin Netherton and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best new research on medieval clothing and textiles, drawing from a range of disciplines. 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 Emerita 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

Book Miraculous Bouquets

    Book Details:
  • Author : Anne T. Woollett
  • Publisher : Getty Publications
  • Release : 2011
  • ISBN : 1606060902
  • Pages : 51 pages

Download or read book Miraculous Bouquets written by Anne T. Woollett and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2011 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Precisely rendered to dazzle the eye with their botanical accuracy, the sumptuous arrays of fruit and flowers by Dutch painter Jan van Huysum (1682-1749) were among the most avidly collected paintings of the 18th century. This little book explores two of Van Huysum's most important still-life paintings, Vase of Flowers and Fruit Piece.

Book Clothes and Crafts in the Middle Ages

Download or read book Clothes and Crafts in the Middle Ages written by Imogen Dawson and published by Gareth Stevens Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes clothes and crafts throughout the Middle Ages in Europe while also discussing the everyday life of the people, their technological skills, and social and economic systems.

Book The Devil s Cloth

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michel Pastoureau
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2003-06-04
  • ISBN : 0743453263
  • Pages : 148 pages

Download or read book The Devil s Cloth written by Michel Pastoureau and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2003-06-04 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To stripe a surface serves to distinguish it, to point it out, to oppose it or associate it with another surface, and thus to classify it, to keep an eye on it, to verify it, even to censor it. Throughout the ages, the stripe has made its mark in mysterious ways. From prisoners' uniforms to tailored suits, a street sign to a set of sheets, Pablo Picasso to Saint Joseph, stripes have always made a bold statement. But the boundary that separates the good stripe from the bad is often blurred. Why, for instance, were stripes associated with the devil during the Middle Ages? How did stripes come to symbolize freedom and unity after the American and French revolutions? When did the stripe become a standard in men's fashion? "In the stripe," writes author Michel Pastoureau, "there is something that resists enclosure within systems." So before putting on that necktie or waving your country's flag, look to The Devil's Cloth for a colorful history of the stripe in all its variety, controversy, and connotation.

Book Textiles and the Medieval Economy

Download or read book Textiles and the Medieval Economy written by Angela Ling Huang and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2014-06-30 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Archaeologists and textile historians bring together 16 papers to investigate the production, trade and consumption of textiles in Scandinavia and across parts of northern and Mediterranean Europe throughout the medieval period. Archaeological evidence is used to demonstrate the existence or otherwise of international trade and to examine the physical characteristics of textiles and their distribution in order to understand who was producing, using and trading them and what they were being used for. Historical evidence, mainly textual, is employed to link textile names to places, numbers and prices and thus provide an appreciation of changing economics, patterns of distribution and the organisation of trade. Different types and qualities of cloths are discussed and the social implications of their production and import/export considered against a developing background of urbanism and increasing commercial wealth.

Book Textiles and Clothing  C 1150 c 1450

Download or read book Textiles and Clothing C 1150 c 1450 written by Elisabeth Crowfoot and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scraps of clothing and other textiles are among the most evocative items to be discovered by archaeologists, signalling as they do their owner's status and concerns.

Book Medieval Fabrications

Download or read book Medieval Fabrications written by E. Burns and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The varied cultural functions of dress, textiles, and clothwork are used in this collection of essays to examine long-standing assumptions about the Middle Ages. 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 and queer identity 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.

Book Courtly Love Undressed

    Book Details:
  • Author : E. Jane Burns
  • Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN : 9780812236712
  • Pages : 342 pages

Download or read book Courtly Love Undressed written by E. Jane Burns and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading through clothes reveals that the expression of female desire, so often effaced in courtly lyric and romance, can be registered in the poetic deployment of fabric and adornment, and that gender is often configured along a sartorial continuum, rather than in terms of naturally derived categories of woman and man.

Book Medicine and Space

    Book Details:
  • Author :
  • Publisher : BRILL
  • Release : 2011-12-09
  • ISBN : 9004226508
  • Pages : 392 pages

Download or read book Medicine and Space written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-12-09 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contributes to medical history in Antiquity and the Middle Ages by significantly widening our understandings of health and treatment through the theme of space . The fundamental question about how space was conceived by different groups of people in these periods has been used to demonstrate the multi-variant understandings of the body and its functions, illness and treatment, and the surrounding natural and built environments in relation to health. The subject is approached from a variety of source materials: medical, philosophical and religious literature, archaeological remains and artistic reproductions. By taking a multi-disciplinary approach to the subject the volume offers new interpretations and methodologies to medical history in the periods in question. Contributors are Helen King, Michael McVaugh, Maithe Hulskamp, Glenda McDonald, Roberto Lo Presti, Fabiola van Dam, Catrien Santing, Ralph Rosen, and Irina Metzler.

Book Medieval Costume and How to Recreate It

Download or read book Medieval Costume and How to Recreate It written by Dorothy Hartley and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2011-09-12 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique reference classifies the clothes and accessories of the 12th through 15th centuries along social lines. Garments of every type from the wardrobes of peasants and nobility appear in over 200 period illustrations and patterns.

Book Medieval Dress and Textiles in Britain

Download or read book Medieval Dress and Textiles in Britain written by Louise Sylvester and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vital sourcebook for information on clothing and textiles in the middle ages, containing many previously unprinted documents.

Book Dress in the Middle Ages

Download or read book Dress in the Middle Ages written by Françoise Piponnier and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A survey of medieval clothing, offering an understanding of the cultural and social conditions of western Europe in the 14th and 15th centuries. It draws on paintings and sculpture, documents and literature, surviving clothing, textiles, jewellery and armour.

Book Clothing the Past  Surviving Garments from Early Medieval to Early Modern Western Europe

Download or read book Clothing the Past Surviving Garments from Early Medieval to Early Modern Western Europe written by Elizabeth Coatsworth and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-02-12 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An astonishing number of medieval garments survive, more-or-less complete. Here the authors present 100 items, ranging from homely to princely. The book’s wide-ranging introduction discusses the circumstances in which garments have survived to the present; sets and collections; constructional and decorative techniques; iconography; inscriptions on garments; style and fashion. Detailed descriptions and discussions explain technique and ornament, investigate alleged associations with famous people (many of them spurious) and demonstrate, even when there are no known associations, how a garment may reveal its own biography: a story that can include repair, remaking, recycling; burial, resurrection and veneration; accidental loss or deliberate deposition. The authors both have many publications in the field of medieval studies, including previous collaborations on medieval textiles such as Medieval Textiles of the British Isles AD 450-1100: an Annotated Bibliography (2007), the Encyclopedia of Medieval Dress and Textiles of the British Isles (2012) and online bibliographies.

Book Medieval Dress   Fashion

Download or read book Medieval Dress Fashion written by Margaret Scott and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Margaret Scott presents a fascinating narrative of the history of European clothing for roughly 600 years from the tenth century onwards. Illuminated manuscripts are a treasure trove of information on the clothing people wore, or wanted to be seen to wear, in greater or lesser European courts, but she reminds us that written records, like household accounts, are a valuable complement to the pictures.

Book The Five Minute Medievalist

    Book Details:
  • Author : Daniele Cybulskie
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2016-04-20
  • ISBN : 9780995151017
  • Pages : 100 pages

Download or read book The Five Minute Medievalist written by Daniele Cybulskie and published by . This book was released on 2016-04-20 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Funny, informative, and down-to-earth, this ebook features thirteen of the most popular articles from Medievalist.net's Five-Minute Medievalist, Daniele Cybulskie. Readers will learn about everything from the Templars, to popular movie myths, to love and lust advice from a 12th-century priest. Exclusive content includes two never-before-published articles on quirky medieval words we still use every day, and the surprising sexual secrets of the Middle Ages. Unlock the mysteries of the medieval world, five minutes at a time."