ISBN:
9781782043836
,
9781843839323
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (xii, 412 pages)
,
digital, PDF file(s).
Series Statement:
Medieval and Renaissance clothing and textiles
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
391.009410902
Keywords:
Clothing and dress History Medieval, 500-1500
;
Textile fabrics, Medieval
Abstract:
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.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 24 Feb 2023)
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