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The best new research on medieval clothing and textiles, drawing
from a range of disciplines. The usual wide range of approaches to
garments and fabrics appears in this tenth volume. Three chapters
focus on practical matters: a description of the medieval vestments
surviving at Castel Sant'Elia in Italy; a survey of the spread of
silk cultivation to Europe before 1300; and a documentation of
medieval colour terminology for desirable cloth. Two address social
significance: the practice of seizing clothing from debtors in
fourteenth-century Lucca, and the transformation of the wardrobe of
Margaret Tudor, daughter of King Henry VII, upon her marriage to
the king of Scotland. Two delve into artistic symbolism: a
consideration of female headdresses carved at St Frideswide's
Priory in Oxford, and a discussion of how Anglo-Saxon artists used
soft furnishings to echo emotional aspects of narratives.
Meanwhile, in an exercise in historiography, there is an
examination of the life of Mrs. A.G.I. Christie, author of the
landmark Medieval English Embroidery. ROBIN NETHERTON is a
professional editor and a researcher/lecturer on the interpretation
of medieval European dress; GALE R. OWEN-CROCKER is Professor of
Anglo-Saxon Culture at the University of Manchester. Contributors:
Michelle L. Beer, Elizabeth Coatsworth, Valija Evalds, Christine
Meek, Maureen C. Miller, Christopher J. Monk, Lisa Monnas, Rebecca
Woodward Wendelken
This monograph is based on a symposium held in the National
Gallery, London which showed how Richard II's beliefs may have been
expressed in the highly religious work, the Wilton Diptych, and how
he aspired to equal in magnificence the royal figures of Europe, in
particular Bohemia and France. Richard's love of material splendour
from the rebuilding of Westminster Hall to his lavish expenditure
on dress and gifts is argued in these essays. All the facets of the
regal image are underpinned by experts in the history, sociology
and artefacts of the period, who in their studies aim to bring out
the political difficulties under which Richard was operating.
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