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Medieval Clothing and Textiles 15 (Hardcover)
Robin Netherton, Gale R. Owen-Crocker, Monica L. Wright; Contributions by Alejandra Concha Sahli, Elizabeth M. Swedo, …
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The best new research on medieval clothing and textiles, drawing
from a variety of angles and approaches. The essays in this volume
continue the Journal's tradition of groundbreaking
interdisciplinary work. The volume opens with a survey of the
discipline of medieval clothing and textiles, written by founding
editor Gale R. Owen-Crocker. The range of the other essays extends
chronologically from the early Middle Ages through the fifteenth
century and covers a variety of disciplines. Topics include the
conception of the author as a "wordweaver" in the literatures of
Anglo-Saxon England; intertextual literary identities established
through clothing in the Nibelungenlied and the Voelsunga Saga; the
historical record of clothing and textiles at the court of King
John of England; medallion silks, their use in Western Europe, and
their representation in art; the vestments of Beguines and other
penitential movements in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries;
and a depiction of heraldic textile weaving inlate-medieval art.
Contributors: Tina Anderlini, Joanne W. Anderson, Maren Clegg Hyer,
Alejandra Concha Sahli, Gale R. Owen-Crocker, Elizabeth M. Swedo,
Hugh Thomas
Sense and Feeling in Daily Living in the Early Medieval English
World seeks to illuminate important aspects of daily living and the
experience of the environment through sense and emotion, using
archaeological, art and textual sources. Twelve papers explore
sight, sound, taste, smell, touch, and emotions such as anger,
horror, grief and joy. Similar in theme and method to the first,
second and third volumes in the Daily Living in the Anglo-Saxon
World series, the collected articles illuminate how an
understanding of the sensory and emotional landscape that helped
form the daily lives of the peoples and the environments of early
medieval England can inform the study of England before the Norman
Conquest. The sights, smells, and sounds that informed the physical
and emotional landscape of town, scriptoria, and hall, for example,
explain urban planning, literary imagery and emotional attachment
evident among the early medieval English peoples. Experienced
senses and emotions are thus as central to understanding the inner
and outer landscape of the pre-Conquest English as crafts, towns or
water structures.
Similar in theme and method to the first and second volumes, Water
and the Environment in the Anglo-Saxon World, third volume of the
series Daily Living in the Anglo-Saxon World, illuminates how an
understanding of the impact of water features on the daily lives of
the people and the environment of the Anglo-Saxon world can inform
reading and scholarship of the period in significant ways. In
discussing fishing, for example, we learn in what ways fish and
fishing might have impacted the life of the average person who
lived near fishing waters in early medieval England: how fishing
affected that person's diet, livelihood, and religious obligations,
as well as how fish and fishing waters influenced social and
cultural structures. Similar lines of enquiry in the volume's
chapters shed insight on water imagery in Old English poetry, on
place names that delineate types of watery bodies across the early
medieval landscape, and on human interactions (poetic and
otherwise) with fens and other wetlands, sacred wells and springs,
landing spaces, bridges, canals, watermills, and river settlements,
as well as a variety of other waterscapes. The volume's examination
of the impact of water features on the daily lives of the people
and the environment of the Anglo-Saxon world fosters an
understanding, in the end, not only of the archaeological and
material circumstances of water and its uses, but also the
imaginative waterscapes found in the textual records of the peoples
of early medieval England.
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Medieval Clothing and Textiles 1 (Hardcover)
Robin Netherton, Gale R. Owen-Crocker; Contributions by Carla Tilghman, Elizabeth Coatsworth, Gale R. Owen-Crocker, …
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First volume in new series dedicated to medieval clothing and
textiles, drawing from a range of disciplines and with a special
focus on reconstruction and re-enactment. The study of medieval
clothing and textiles has aroused great attention in recent years,
as part of the growing concern in material culture as a whole;
apart from its own intrinsic interest, it has much to reveal about
life at thetime. This exciting new series aims to offer all those
interested in the subject the fruits of the best research in the
area. Interdisciplinary in approach, it will feature work from the
fields of social and economic history, history of techniques and
technology, art history, archaeology, literary and non-literary
texts, and language, while experimental reconstruction of medieval
techniques or artifacts will also form a particular focus. The
contents of each volume are selected to cover a broad geographical
scope, as well as a range of periods from early medieval to the
late Middle Ages. The journal also publishes short reviews of new
books. Topics in this first volume include Anglo-Saxon embroidery;
textiles and textile imagery in the Exeter Book; the tippet; the
regulation of clerical dress; and evidence for dress and textiles
in late medieval English wills. ROBIN NETHERTON is a
costumehistorian. Her research focuses on Western European clothing
between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries. GALE R. OWEN-CROCKER
is Professor of Anglo-Saxon Culture, University of Manchester. She
has a special interest in dress throughout the medieval period -
she advises on dress entries to the Toronto Old English Dictionary
and has consulted for many museums and television companies.
The Material Culture of the Built Environment in the Anglo-Saxon
World, second volume of Daily Living in the Anglo-Saxon World,
continues to introduce students of Anglo-Saxon culture to aspects
of the realities of the built environment that surrounded
Anglo-Saxon peoples through reference to archaeological and textual
sources. It considers what structures intruded on the natural
landscape the Anglo-Saxons inhabited – roads and tracks, ancient
barrows and Roman buildings, the villages and towns, churches,
beacons, boundary ditches and walls, grave-markers and standing
sculptures – and explores the interrelationships between them and
their part in Anglo-Saxon life.
This illustrated book introduces serious students of Anglo-Saxon
culture to selected aspects of the realities of Anglo-Saxon life
through reference to artefacts and textual sources. Everyday
practices and processes are investigated, such as the exploitation
of animals for clothing, meat, cheese and parchment; ships for
travel, trade and transport; manufacturing processes of metalwork;
textiles for dress and furnishing and the practicalities of living
with illness or disability. Articles collected in this volume
illuminate how an understanding of the material culture of the
daily Anglo-Saxon world can inform reading and scholarship in
Anglo-Saxon studies. Scholarly and practical material presented
inform one another, making the book accessible to any reader
seriously interested in England in the early Middle Ages.
Essays on costume, fabric and clothing in the Middle Ages and
beyond. All those who work with historical dress and textiles must
in some way re-fashion them. This fundamental concept is developed
and addressed by the articles collected here, ranging over issues
of gender, status and power. Topics include: the repurposing and
transformation of material items for purposes of religion,
memorialisation, restoration and display; attempts to regulate
dress, both ecclesiastical and secular, the reasons for it and the
refashioning which was both a result and a reaction; conventional
ways in which dress was used to characterise children, and their
transition into young men; how symbolism-laded dress items could
indicate political/religious affiliations; waysin which
allegorical, biblical and historical figures were depicted in art
in dress familiar to the viewers of their own era, and the emotive
and intellectual responses to these costumes the artists sought to
elicit; and the use of clothing in medieval literature (often rich,
exotic or unique) as narrative, structuring and rhetorical devices.
Taken together, they honour the costume historian and editor Robin
Netherton, who has been hugely influentialin the development of
medieval and Renaissance dress and textile studies. GALE R.
OWEN-CROCKER is Professor Emerita at the University of Manchester;
MAREN CLEGG HYER is Professor of English at Valdosta State
University. Contributors: Melanie Schuessler Bond, Elizabeth
Coatsworth, Lisa Evans, Gina Frasson-Hudson, Charney Goldman,
Sarah-Grace Heller, Maren Clegg Hyer, John Friedman, Thomas
Izbicki, Drea Leed, Christine Meek, M.A. Nordtorp-Madson, Gale R.
Owen-Crocker, Lucia Sinisi, Monica L. Wright.
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Medieval Clothing and Textiles 8 (Hardcover)
Robin Netherton, Gale R. Owen-Crocker; Contributions by Brigitte Haas-Gebhard, Britt Nowak-Boeck, Chyrstel Brandenburgh, …
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Pan-European research on medieval clothing and textiles, drawing
from a range of disciplines. This volume continues the series'
tradition of bringing together work on clothing and textiles from
across Europe. It has a strong focus on gold: subjects include
sixth-century German burials containing sumptuous jewellery and
bands brocaded with gold; the textual evidence for recycling such
gold borders and bands in the later Anglo-Saxon period; and a
semantic classification of words relating to gold in multi-lingual
medieval Britain. It also rescues significant archaeological
textiles from obscurity: there is a discussion of early medieval
headdresses from The Netherlands, and an examination of a
fifteenth-century Italian cushion, an early example of piecework.
Finally, uses of dress and textiles in literature are explored in a
survey of the Welsh Mabinogion and Jean Renart's Roman de la Rose.
Robin Netherton is a professional editor and a researcher/lecturer
on the interpretationof medieval European dress; Gale R.
Owen-Crocker is Professor of Anglo-Saxon Culture at the University
of Manchester. Contributors: Brigitte Haas-Gebhard, Britt
Nowak-Boeck, Maren Clegg Hyer, Louise Sylvester,
ChrystelBrandenburgh, Lisa Evans, Patricia Williams, Katherine
Talarico.
The Material Culture of the Built Environment in the Anglo-Saxon
World, second volume of Daily Living in the Anglo-Saxon World,
continues to introduce students of Anglo-Saxon culture to aspects
of the realities of the built environment that surrounded
Anglo-Saxon peoples through reference to archaeological and textual
sources. It considers what structures intruded on the natural
landscape the Anglo-Saxons inhabited - roads and tracks, ancient
barrows and Roman buildings, the villages and towns, churches,
beacons, boundary ditches and walls, grave-markers and standing
sculptures - and explores the interrelationships between them and
their part in Anglo-Saxon life.
Essays demonstrating how the careful study of individual words can
shed immense light on texts more broadly. Dedicated to honoring the
remarkable achievements of Dr Antonette di Paolo Healey, the
architect and lexicographer of the Old English Concordance, the
Dictionary of Old English Web Corpus, and the Dictionary of Old
English, the essays in this volume reflect firsthand the research
made possible by Dr. Healey's landmark contributions to her field.
Each chapter highlights how the careful consideration and study of
words can lead to greater insights, from an understanding of early
medieval English concepts of time and identity, to
reconceptualizations of canonical Old English poems, reappraisals
of early medieval English authors and their works, greater
understanding of the semantic fields of Old English words and
manuscript traditions, and the solving of lexical puzzles. MAREN
CLEGG HYER is Professor of English at Valdosta State University;
HARUKO MOMMA is Professor of English at NewYork University;
SAMANTHA ZACHER is Professor of English and Medieval Studies at
Cornell University. Contributors: Brianna Daigneault, Damian
Fleming, Roberta Frank, Robert Getz, Joyce Hill, Joan Holland,
Maren Clegg Hyer, Christopher A. Jones, R.M. Liuzza, Haruko Momma,
Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe, Andy Orchard, Stephen Pelle, Christine
Rauer, Terri Sanderson, Donald Scragg, Paul Szarmach, M. J.
Toswell, Audrey Walton, Samantha Zacher.
Essays centred round the representation of weaving, both real and
imagined, in the early middle ages. The triple themes of textile,
text, and intertext, three powerful and evocative subjects within
both Anglo-Saxon studies and Old English literature itself, run
through the essays collected here. Chapters evoke the semantic
complexities of textile references and images drawn from the Bayeux
Tapestry, examine parallels in word-woven poetics, riddling texts,
and interwoven homiletic and historical prose, and identify
iconographical textures in medieval art. The volume thus considers
the images and creative strategies of textiles, texts, and
intertexts, generating a complex and fascinating view of the
material culture and metaphorical landscape of the Anglo-Saxon
peoples. It is therefore a particularly fitting tribute to
Professor Gale R. Owen-Crocker, whose career and lengthy list of
scholarly works have centred on her interests in the meaning and
cultural importance of textiles, manuscripts and text, and
intertextual relationships between text and textile. MAREN CLEGG
HYER is Associate Professor and Graduate Coordinator in the
Department of English at Valdosta State University; JILL FREDERICK
is Professor of English at Minnesota State University Moorhead.
Contributors: Marilina Cesario, Elizabeth Coatsworth, Martin Foys,
Jill Frederick, Joyce Hill, Maren Clegg Hyer, Catherine E. Karkov,
Christina Lee, Michael Lewis, Robin Netherton, Carol Neuman de
Vegvar, Donald Scragg, Louise Sylvester, Paul Szarmach, Elaine
Treharne.
Sense and Feeling in Daily Living in the Early Medieval English
World seeks to illuminate important aspects of daily living and the
experience of the environment through sense and emotion, using
archaeological, art and textual sources. Twelve papers explore
sight, sound, taste, smell, touch, and emotions such as anger,
horror, grief and joy. Similar in theme and method to the first,
second and third volumes in the Daily Living in the Anglo-Saxon
World series, the collected articles illuminate how an
understanding of the sensory and emotional landscape that helped
form the daily lives of the peoples and the environments of early
medieval England can inform the study of England before the Norman
Conquest. The sights, smells, and sounds that informed the physical
and emotional landscape of town, scriptoria, and hall, for example,
explain urban planning, literary imagery and emotional attachment
evident among the early medieval English peoples. Experienced
senses and emotions are thus as central to understanding the inner
and outer landscape of the pre-Conquest English as crafts, towns or
water structures.
Similar in theme and method to the first and second volumes, Water
and the Environment in the Anglo-Saxon World, third volume of the
series Daily Living in the Anglo-Saxon World, illuminates how an
understanding of the impact of water features on the daily lives of
the people and the environment of the Anglo-Saxon world can inform
reading and scholarship of the period in significant ways. In
discussing fishing, for example, we learn in what ways fish and
fishing might have impacted the life of the average person who
lived near fishing waters in early medieval England: how fishing
affected that person's diet, livelihood, and religious obligations,
as well as how fish and fishing waters influenced social and
cultural structures. Similar lines of enquiry in the volume's
chapters shed insight on water imagery in Old English poetry, on
place names that delineate types of watery bodies across the early
medieval landscape, and on human interactions (poetic and
otherwise) with fens and other wetlands, sacred wells and springs,
landing spaces, bridges, canals, watermills, and river settlements,
as well as a variety of other waterscapes. The volume's examination
of the impact of water features on the daily lives of the people
and the environment of the Anglo-Saxon world fosters an
understanding, in the end, not only of the archaeological and
material circumstances of water and its uses, but also the
imaginative waterscapes found in the textual records of the peoples
of early medieval England.
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Medieval Clothing and Textiles 11 (Hardcover)
Robin Netherton, Gale R. Owen-Crocker; Contributions by Brigitte Haas-Gebhard, Britt Nowak-Böck, Chyrstel Brandenburgh, …
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A wide-ranging and varied collection of essays which examine
surviving garments, methods of production and clothes in society.
The second decade of this acclaimed and popular series begins with
a volume that will be essential reading for historians and
re-enactors alike. Two papers consider cloth manufacture in the
early medieval period: Ingvild Øye examines the graves of
prosperous Viking Age women from Western Norway which contained
both textile-making tools and the remains of cloth, considering the
relationship between the two. Karen Nicholson compliments this with
practical experiments in spinning. This is followed by Tina
Anderlini's close examination of the details of cut and
construction of a thirteenth-century chemise attributed to King
Louis IX of France (St Louis), out of its shrine for the firsttime
since 1970. Three papers consider fashionable clothing and
morality: Sarah-Grace Heller discusses sumptuary legislation from
Angevin Sicily in the 1290s which sought to restrict men's dress at
a time when preparation for war was more important than showy
clothes; Cordelia Warr examines the dire consequences of a woman
dressing extravagantly as portrayed in a fourteenth-century Italian
fresco; and Emily Rozier discusses the extremes of dress attributed
by moral and satirical writers to the men known as "galaunts". Two
textual studies then show the importance of textiles in daily life.
Susan Powell reveals the austere but magnificent purchases made on
behalf of Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of King Henry VII, in the
last ten years of her life (1498-1509); Anna Riehl Bertolet
discusses in detail the passage in Shakespeare's A Midsummer
Night's Dream where Helena passionately recalls sewinga sampler
with Hermia when they were young and still bosom friends.
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