The best new research on medieval clothing and textiles, drawing from a variety of angles and approaches.
The essays here take us from the eleventh century, with an exploration of the Bayeux Tapestry, into an examination and reconstruction of an extant thirteenth-century sleeve in France which provides a rare and early example of medieval quilted armour, and finally on to late medieval Sweden and the reconstruction of gilt-leather intarsia coverlets. A study of construction techniques and the evolution of form of gable and French hoods in the late medieval and the early modern periods follows; and the volume also includes a study of the Great Wardrobe under Edward I of England, and what it can tell us about textiles at the time.
Table of Content
Preface
Embroidered Beasts: Animals in the Bayeux Tapestry –
Gale R. Owen-Crocker
The Sleeve from Bussy-Saint-Martin: A Rare Example of Medieval Quilted Armor –
Catherine Besson-Lagier
The Administration of Cloth and Clothing in the Great Wardrobe of Edward I –
Charles Farris
Hanging Together: Furnishing Textiles in a Fifteenth-Century Book of Hours –
Anne Kirkham
Gilt-leather Embroideries from Medieval Sweden and Finland –
Amica Sundström and Maria Neijman
From Hennin to Hood: An Analysis of the Evolution of the English Hood Compared to the Evolution of the French Hood –
Karen Margrethe Høskuldsson
About the author
Monica L. Wright is the Granger and Debaillon Professor of French and Medieval Studies at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA. Her research focuses on the use of clothing in medieval French literature.
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