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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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedicated
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Introduction Why Textiles Make a Difference
- One Text and Textile: Lydgate's Tapestry Poems
- Two Tristan Slippers: An Image of Adulteryon a Symbol of Marriage?
- Three Dressing and Undressing the Clergy: Rites of Ordination and Degradation
- Four Uncovering Griselda: Christine de Pizan, "une seule chemise," and the Clerical Tradition: Boccaccio, Petrarch, Philippe de MÊzierès and the Menagier de Paris
- Five "This Skill in a Woman is By No Means to Be Despised" : Weaving and the Gender Division of Labor in the Middle Ages
- Six Tucks and Darts: Adjusting Patterns to Fit Figures for Stained Glass Windows around 1200
- Seven Limiting Yardage and Changes of Clothes: Sumptuary Legislation in Thirteenth-Century France, Languedoc and Italy
- Eight Material and Symbolic Gift-Giving: Clothes in English and French Wills
- Nine Cloth from the Promised Land: Appropriated Islamic Tiraz in Twelfth-Century French Sculpture
- Ten AlmerĂa Silk and the French Feudal Imaginary: Toward a "Material" History of the Medieval Mediterranean
- Eleven How Philosophy Matters: Death, Sex, Clothes, and Boethius
- Twelve Flayed Skin as objet a: Representation and Materiality in Guillaume de Deguileville's Pèlerinage de vie humaine.
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Author Biographies
- Index