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Topics in this volume range widely throughout the European middle ages. Three contributions concern terminology for dress. Two deal with multicultural medieval Apulia: an examination of clothing terms in surviving marriage contracts from the tenth to the fourteenth century, and a close focus on an illuminated document made for a prestigious wedding. Turning to Scandinavia, there is an analysis of clothing materials from Norway and Sweden according to gender and social distribution. Further papers consider the economic uses of cloth and clothing: wool production and the dress of the Cistercian community at Beaulieu Abbey based on its 1269-1270 account book, and the use of clothing as pledge or payment in medieval Ireland. In addition, there is a consideration of the history of dagged clothing and its negative significance to moralists, and of the painted hangings that were common in homes of all classes in the sixteenth century.
Author(s): Robin Netherton, Gale R. Owen-Crocker (eds.)
Publisher: The Boydell Press
Year: 2013
Language: English
Pages: 182
City: Woodbridge
Illustrations page vi
Tables vii
Contributors viii
Preface xi
1. Bridal Gifts in Medieval Bari / Antonietta Amati Canta 1
2. The Marriage of the Year (1028) / Lucia Sinisi 45
3. Clothing as Currency in Pre-Norman Ireland? / Mark Zumbuhl 55
4. Cistercian Clothing and Its Production at Beaulieu Abbey, 1269–70 / John Oldland 73
5. Clothing and Textile Materials in Medieval Sweden and Norway / Eva I. Andersson 97
6. The Iconography of Dagged Clothing and Its Reception by Moralist Writers / John Block Friedman 121
7. Domestic Painted Cloths in Sixteenth-Century England: Imagery, Placement, and Ownership / Susan E. James 139
Recent Books of Interest 161
Contents of Previous Volumes 167
