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The best new research on medieval clothing and textiles, drawing
from a range of disciplines. This year's volume focuses largely on
the British Isles, with papers on dress terms in the Middle English
Pearl; a study of a thirteenth-century royal bride's trousseau,
based on unpublished documents concerning King HenryIII's Wardrobe;
an investigation into the "open surcoat" referenced in the
multilingual texts of late medieval England; and, based on customs
accounts, a survey of cloth exports from late medieval London and
the merchants who profited from them. Commercial trading of cloth
is also the subject of a study of fifteenth-century brokers' books,
revealing details of types, designs, and regulation of the famous
silks from Lucca, Italy. Another paper focuseson art, reconsidering
the incidence of frilled veils in the Low Countries and adopting an
innovative means of analysis to question the chronology,
geographical diversity, and social context of this style. 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: Benjamin L.Wild, Isis Sturtewagen, Kimberly Jack,
Mark Chambers, Eleanor Quinton, John Oldland, Christine Meek
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Medieval English Theatre 41 (Paperback)
Sarah Carpenter, Elisabeth Dutton, Meg Twycross, Gordon L. Kipling; Contributions by Meg Twycross, …
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R1,073
Discovery Miles 10 730
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Essays on the performance of drama from the middle ages, ranging
from the well-known cycles of York to matter from Iran. Medieval
English Theatre is the premier journal in early theatre studies.
Its name belies its wide range of interest: it publishes articles
on theatre and pageantry from across the British Isles up to the
opening of the London playhouses and the suppression of the civic
mystery cycles, and also includes contributions on European and
Latin drama, together with analyses of modern survivals or
equivalents, and of research productions of medieval plays. The
articles here focus on civic theatre and display. Chester, York,
Durham and Newcastle, and London. Practicalities are to the fore:
what the Drawers of Dee actually did, how the actors in the York
Corpus Christi Play knewwhat time it was, the difficulties
presented to London pageantry by unauthorised house-extensions and
horse-droppings. Even the stately entertainments of a royal tour by
James VI & I featured (in Newcastle, of course) negotiationover
the monopoly on coal disguised as a historical event in a play
about King Alfred and Canute. Ranging further afield is an
introduction to the living tradition of Iranian mystery plays,
whose history and development have somethought-provoking parallels
with those of medieval waggon plays in the West. Finally, the
director and producer discuss their 2019 production of John
Redford's Wit and Science by Edward's Boys, the first to be played
by aboys' company since the sixteenth century.
A vital sourcebook for information on clothing and textiles in the
middle ages, containing many previously unprinted documents. Texts
(with modern English translation) offering insights into the place
of cloth and clothing in everyday life are presented here. Covering
a wide range of genres, they include documents from the royal
wardrobe accounts and petitions to king and Parliament, previously
available only in manuscript form. The accounts detail royal
expenditure on fabrics and garments, while the petitions demand the
restoration of livery, for example, or protest about the needfor
winter clothing for children who are wards of the king. In
addition, the volume includes extracts from wills, inventories and
rolls of livery, sumptuary laws, moral and satirical works
condemning contemporary fashions, an OldEnglish epic, and English
and French romances. The texts themselves are in Old and Middle
English, Latin and Anglo-Norman French, with some of the documents
switching between more than one of these languages. They are
presented with introduction, glossary and detailed notes. Louise M.
Sylvester is Reader in English Language at the University of
Westminster; Mark Chambers is a Post-Doctoral Research Associate at
Durham University; Gale R. Owen-Crocker is Professor of Anglo-Saxon
Culture at the University of Manchester.
The best new research on medieval clothing and textiles, drawing
from a range of disciplines. Three of the essays in this collection
focus on Italy, with contributions on footwear in Lucca based on
documentary evidence of the fourteenth century; aristocratic
furnishings as described in a royal letter of the fifteenth
century, along with its first translation into English; and
Boccaccio's treatment of disguise involving Christian/Islamic
identity shifts in his Decameron. The Bayeux Tapestry is discussed
as a narrative artwork that adopts various costumes for semiotic
purposes. Another chapter considers surviving artefacts: a detailed
study of a piece of quilted fabric armour, one of two such items
surviving in Lubeck, Germany, reveals how it was made and suggests
reasons for some of the unusual features. The volume also includes
an investigation of the commercial vocabulary related to the
medieval textile and fur industries: the terms used in Britain for
measuring textile and fur are listed and discussed, especially the
unique use of Anglo-French "launces" in a document of 1300.
Contributors: Jane Bridgeman, Mark C. Chambers, Jessica Finley, Ana
Grinberg, Christine Meek, Gale R. Owen-Crocker
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