Medieval Clothing and Textiles: volumes 1-3 [set]

by Robin Netherton and Gale R. Owen- Crocker

Robin Netherton (Editor), Gale R. Owen-Crocker (Editor), and Professor Gale R. Owen-Crocker (Editor)

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Historical dress and textiles, always a topic of popular interest, has in recent years become an academic subject in its own right, transcending traditional genre boundaries. This annual journal includes in-depth studies from a variety of disciplines. The contents cover a broad geographical scope and a range of periods from the early Middle Ages to the Renaissance.

The first three volumes are now available as a specially-priced set. Topics coveredinclude: Anglo-Saxon embroidery; textiles and textile imagery in the Exeter Book; the Latin inscription embroidered on the Bayeux Tapestry; clothmaking in twelfth-century French romances; medieval Paris as an internationaltextile market; the use of jewelled animal pelts as fashion accessories in the Renaissance; soft furnishings; aristocratic children's clothing, and much more.
  • ISBN10 1843834200
  • ISBN13 9781843834205
  • Publish Date 17 April 2008
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Boydell & Brewer Ltd
  • Imprint The Boydell Press
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 648
  • Language English