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