A Cultural History of Dress and Fashion in the Medieval Age

ISBN: 9780857856876 出版年：2018 页码：258 Bloomsbury Publishing

During the medieval period, people invested heavily in looking goofashions demanded careful chemistry and compounds imported from great distances and at considerable risk to merchants; the Church became a major consumer of both the richest and humblest varieties of cloth, shoes, and adornment; and vernacular poets began to embroider their stories with hundreds of verses describing a plethora of dress styles, fabrics, and shopping experiences. Drawiof pictorial, textual and object sources, the volume examines how dress cultures developed – oftof dazzling sophistication – between the years 800 to 1450. Beautifully illustrated with 100 images, A Cultural History of Dress and Fashion in the Medieval Age presents an overview of the perion textiles, production and distribution, the body, belief, gender and sexuality, status, ethnicity, visual representations, and literary representations.