Clothing culture, 1350-1650 / edited by Catherine Richardson.
Published / Created:
Aldershot, England ; Ashgate, c2004.Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2004.
Physical Description:
xiv, 290 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Related Content:
Table of contents
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0412/2003028035.html
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-286) and index.
Contents:
Introduction / Catherine Richardson. Fabrics of nation. The cultural significance of costume books in sixteenth century Europe / Ulrike Ilg -- A question of nation : foreign cloth on the English subject / Roze Hentschell -- Tomb effigies and archaic dress in sixteenth century Ireland / Elizabeth Wincott Heckett -- The formation of Russian women's costume at the time before the reforms of Peter the Great / Oksana Sekatcheva. Marking distinctions. Clothing courtesans : fabrics, signals, and experiences / Tessa Storey -- Clothing the naked in late medieval East Kent / Sheila Sweetinburgh -- Dress, nudity and Calvinist culture in sixteenth century France -- Graeme Murdock -- Social fabric in Thynne's debate between pride and lowliness / Claire Bartram. Material movements. Clothing distributions and social relations c. 1350-1500 / Joanna Crawford -- Fashion, finance, foreign politics and the wardrobe of Henry VIII / Maria Hayward -- Reworked material : discourses of clothing culture in early sixteenth century Greenwich / Elisabeth Salter. Discourse, body, gender. 'This one poore blacke gowne lined with white' : the clothing of the sixteenth century English book / Helen smith -- 'Havying nothing upon hym saving onely his sherte' : event, narrative and material culture in early modern England / Catherine Richardson -- Rips and slits : the torn garment and the medieval self / Andrea Denny-Brown -- Speaking to reveal : the body
Subject Terms:
Clothing and dress -- Europe -- History. | Clothing and dress -- History -- Medieval, 500–1500. | Clothing and dress -- History -- 17th century. | Clothing and dress -- Social aspects -- Europe.