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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Refashioning Medieval and Early Modern Dress: A Tribute to Robin Netherton

Refashioning Medieval and Early Modern Dress: A Tribute to Robin Netherton

Clegg Hyer, Maren
Goldman, Charney
Owen-Crocker, Gale R.

Hardcover

Series: Medieval and Renaissance Clothing and Textiles, Book 4

Medieval & Renaissance HistoryGeneral World HistoryTextiles & Costume

ISBN10: 1783274743
ISBN13: 9781783274741
Publisher: Boydell Press
Published: Nov 15 2019
Pages: 312
Weight: 2.05
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.80 Depth: 9.50
Language: English
Essays on costume, fabric and clothing in the Middle Ages and beyond.

All those who work with historical dress and textiles must in some way re-fashion them. This fundamental concept is developed and addressed by the articles collected here, ranging over issues of gender, status and power. Topics include: the repurposing and transformation of material items for purposes of religion, memorialisation, restoration and display; attempts to regulate dress, both ecclesiastical and secular, the reasons for it and the refashioning which was both a result and a reaction; conventional ways in which dress was used to characterise children, and their transition into young men; how symbolism-laded dress items could indicate political/religious affiliations; waysin which allegorical, biblical and historical figures were depicted in art in dress familiar to the viewers of their own era, and the emotive and intellectual responses to these costumes the artists sought to elicit; and the use of clothing in medieval literature (often rich, exotic or unique) as narrative, structuring and rhetorical devices.

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