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The best new research on medieval clothing and textiles, drawing
from a range of disciplines and with a special focus on
reconstruction. The third volume of this pioneering series explores
the manufacture and trade of textiles and their practical,
fashionable, and symbolic uses. Papers include in-depth studies and
cross-genre scholarship representing such fields associal history,
economics, art history, archaeology and literature, as well as the
reconstruction of textile-making techniques. They range over
England, Flanders, France, Germany, and Spain from the seventh to
the sixteenth centuries, and address such topics as soft
furnishings, ecclesiastical vestments, the economics of the wool
trade, the making and use of narrow wares, symbolic reference to
courtly dress in a religious text, and aristocratic
children'sclothing. Also included are reviews of recent books on
dress and textile topics. ROBIN NETHERTON is a professional editor
and a researcher/lecturer on Western European dress, specializing
in the depiction and interpretation of clothing by artists and
historians. GALE R. OWEN-CROCKER is Professor of Anglo-Saxon
Culture at The University of Manchester and author of Dress in
Anglo-Saxon England; she is the Director of an ARHC-fundedproject
on cloth and clothing terminology in medieval Britain.
CONTRIBUTORS: ELIZABETH COATSWORTH, SARAH LARRATT KEEFER, SUSAN
LEIBACHER WARD, JOHN H. MUNRO, JOHN OLDLAN, LESLEY K. TWOMEY,
ELIZABETH BENNS, LOIS SWALES, HEATHER BLATT, MELANIE SCHUESSLER
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