Cordelia Warr 
Medieval Clothing and Textiles 18 [PDF ebook] 

The best new research on medieval clothing and textiles, drawing from a range of disciplines.


The essays collected here continue the
Journal’s wide-ranging and eclectic tradition. Topics include literary evidence for linen armour; serial production in late medieval silks; the inventory of Isabella Bruce’s bridal goods; the depiction of women textile workers in the frescoes of the Salone of the Palazzo della Ragione in Padua, Italy; ideal female beauty in the Middle Ages and the means used to attain and assess it; and social status as evidenced by clothing and textiles in the Scottish royal treasurer’s accounts of the mid-sixteenth century.

Table of Content

Preface

1. Linen Armour in the Frankish Countries. Part 1. The Twelfth Century –
Sean Manning

2. Serial Production and Individualisation in Late Medieval Silk Weaving –
Michael Peter

3. The Trousseau of Isabella Bruce, Queen of Norway –
Valeria Di Clemente

4. Make and Create: The Craftswomen in the Salone Frescoes of the Palazzo della Ragione, Padua –
Darrelyn Gunzburg

5. Combs, Mirrors and other Female Beauty Bling in the Middle Ages –
John Block Friedman

6. The Dividing Lines of Social Status in Sixteenth-Century Scottish Fashion –
Melanie Schuessler Bond

About the author

Cordelia Warr is Professor of Medieval and Renaissance Art at the University of Manchester, UK. She has published on a variety of topics including medieval and early-modern religious clothing in Italy, art in Naples, as well as miraculous wounds.