Fashion in Medieval France

by Sarah-Grace Heller

Twelfth- and thirteenth-century medieval French texts reveal the presence of a developed fashion system long before the previously accepted birth of Western fashion in the mid-fourteenth century.

How are we to distinguish between a culture organized around fashion, and one where the desire for novel adornment is latent, intermittent, or prohibited? How do fashion systems organize social hierarchies, individual psychology, creativity, and production?...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 184384110X
• ISBN13: 9781843841104
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 9.5"