Medieval Fabrications - Dress, Textiles, Clothwork, and Other Cultural Imaginings (Hardcover, 2005 ed.)

The varied cultural functions of dress, textiles and clothwork provide an especially cogent lens through which to reexamine our assumptions about the Middle Ages because of the topic's conceptual breadth. Its implications range from the highly theoretical to the very concrete. 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 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.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	The New Middle Ages
Release date:	April 2005
First published:	September 2004
Editors:	E. Burns
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	279
Edition:	2005 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-1-4039-6186-0
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > General Books > Humanities > History > World history > 500 to 1500 Books > Humanities > History > European history > General Books > History > European history > General Books > History > World history > 500 to 1500
LSN:	1-4039-6186-7
Barcode:	9781403961860

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