Fashioning Change: The Trope of Clothing in High- And Late-Medieval England

by Andrea Denny-Brown

Medieval European culture was obsessed with clothing. In Fashioning Change: The Trope of Clothing in High-and Late-Medieval England, Andrea Denny-Brown explores the central impact of clothing in medieval ideas about impermanence and the ethical stakes of human transience. Studies of dress frequently contend with a prevailing cultural belief that bodily adornment speaks to interests that are frivolous, superficial, and cursory. Taking up the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814211909
• ISBN13: 9780814211908
• Release Date: July 2012
• Publisher: Ohio State University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.2"