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Courtly Love Undressed - Reading Through Clothes in Medieval French Culture (Paperback, Revised) Loot Price: R785
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Courtly Love Undressed - Reading Through Clothes in Medieval French Culture (Paperback, Revised): E. Jane Burns

Courtly Love Undressed - Reading Through Clothes in Medieval French Culture (Paperback, Revised)

E. Jane Burns

Series: The Middle Ages Series

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Clothing was used in the Middle Ages to mark religious, military, and chivalric orders, lepers, and prostitutes. The ostentatious display of luxury dress more specifically served as a means of self-definition for members of the ruling elite and the courtly lovers among them. In Courtly Love Undressed, E. Jane Burns unfolds the rich display of costly garments worn by amorous partners in literary texts and other cultural documents in the French High Middle Ages. Burns "reads through clothes" in lyric, romance, and didactic literary works, vernacular sermons, and sumptuary laws to show how courtly attire is used to negotiate desire, sexuality, and symbolic space as well as social class. 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. The symbolic identification of the court itself as a hybrid crossing place between Europe and the East also emerges through Burns's reading of literary allusions to the trade, travel, and pilgrimage that brought luxury cloth to France.

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Imprint: University of PennsylvaniaPress
Country of origin: United States
Series: The Middle Ages Series
Release date: September 2005
First published: 2002
Authors: E. Jane Burns
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 336
Edition: Revised
ISBN-13: 978-0-8122-1930-2
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > BC to 500 CE, Ancient & classical world
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LSN: 0-8122-1930-9
Barcode: 9780812219302

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