Medieval Fabrications: Dress, Textiles, Clothwork, and Other Cultural Imaginings

Book Overview

The varied cultural functions of dress, textiles, and clothwork are used in this collection of essays to examine long-standing assumptions about the Middle Ages. At one end of the spectrum, questions of dress call up feminist theoretical investigations into the body and subjectivity, while broadening those inquiries to include theories of masculinity and queer identity as well. At the other extreme, the production and distribution of textiles carries...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1403961875
• ISBN13: 9781403961877
• Release Date: April 2005
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 279 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.5" x 8.3"