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-Böck, Maren Clegg Hyer, Louise Sylvester, Chrystel Brandenburgh, Lisa Evans, Patricia Williams, Katherine Talarico.
Table of Content
Preface
The Unterhaching Grave Finds: Richly Dressed Burials from Sixth-Century Bavaria – Brigitte Haas-Gebhard and Britt Nowak-Böck
Old Finds Rediscovered: Two Early Medieval Headdresses from the National Museum of Antiquities, Leiden, the Netherlands – Chyrstel Brandenburgh
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: Imagined and Reimagined Textiles in Anglo-Saxon England – Maren Clegg Hyer
Mining for Gold: Investigating a Semantic Classification in the Lexis of Cloth and Clothing Project – Louise Sylvester
Dress and Dignity in the
Mabinogion – Patricia Williams
Dressing for Success: How the Heroine’s Clothing [Un]Makes the Man in Jean Renart’s
Roman de la Rose – Kathryn Marie Talarico
Anomaly or Sole Survivor? The Impruneta Cushion and Early Italian ‘Patchwork’ – Lisa Evans
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About the author
MAREN CLEGG HYER teaches at Snow College in Ephraim, Utah. She specializes in researching textiles and other elements of material culture in the literary imagery of early medieval England.
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