Medieval Clothing and Textiles, Volume 8

This volume continues the series' tradition of bringing together work on clothing and textiles from across Europe. It has a strong focus on gold: subjects include sixth-century German burials containing sumptuous jewellery and bands brocaded with gold; the textual evidence for recycling such gold borders and bands in the later Anglo-Saxon period; and a semantic classification of words relating to gold in multi-lingual medieval Britain. It also rescues significant archaeological textiles from obscurity: there is a discussion of early medieval headdresses from The Netherlands, and an examination of a fifteenth-century Italian cushion, an early example of piecework. Finally, uses of dress and textiles in literature are explored in a survey of the Welsh Mabinogion and Jean Renart's Roman de la Rose.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1843837366
• ISBN13: 9781843837367
• Release Date: July 2012
• Publisher: Boydell Press
• Length: 178 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.4"