Author : Gale R. Owen-Crocker
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 42,88 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 1783274743
Essays on costume, fabric and clothing in the Middle Ages and beyond.
Author : Giorgio Riello
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 525 pages
File Size : 30,46 MB
Release : 2019-01-17
Category : History
ISBN : 1108643523
This is the first global history of dress regulation and its place in broader debates around how human life and societies should be visualised and materialised. Sumptuary laws were a tool on the part of states to regulate not only manufacturing systems and moral economies via the medium of expenditure and consumption of clothing but also banquets, festivities and funerals. Leading scholars on Asian, Latin American, Ottoman and European history shed new light on how and why items of dress became key aspirational goods across society, how they were lobbied for and marketed, and whether or not sumptuary laws were implemented by cities, states and empires to restrict or channel trade and consumption. Their findings reveal the significance of sumptuary laws in medieval and early modern societies as a site of contestation between individuals and states and how dress as an expression of identity developed as a modern 'human right'.
Author : Paula Hohti-Erichsen
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 16,93 MB
Release : 2020-11-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 9048550262
Did ordinary Italians have a 'Renaissance'? This book presents the first in-depth exploration of how artisans and small local traders experienced the material and cultural Renaissance. Drawing on a rich blend of sixteenthcentury visual and archival evidence, it examines how individuals and families at artisanal levels (such as shoemakers, barbers, bakers and innkeepers) lived and worked, managed their household economies and consumption, socialised in their homes, and engaged with the arts and the markets for luxury goods. It demonstrates that although the economic and social status of local craftsmen and traders was relatively low, their material possessions show how these men and women who rarely make it into the history books were fully engaged with contemporary culture, cultural customs and the urban way of life.
Author : Louise Sylvester
Publisher :
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 21,24 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781843839323
A vital sourcebook for information on clothing and textiles in the middle ages, containing many previously unprinted documents.
Author : Catherine Kovesi Killerby
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 21,18 MB
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199247936
Although the luxurious spending habits of Italians in the Renaissance are well known, this is the first comprehensive study of the sumptuary laws that attempted to regulate the consumption of luxuries. Catherine Kovesi Killerby provides a chronological, geographical, and thematic survey of more than three hundred laws enacted in over forty cities throughout Italy, and sets them in their social context.
Author : Robin Netherton
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 38,74 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Design
ISBN : 1843838567
The best new research on medieval clothing and textiles, drawing from a range of disciplines. Topics in this volume range widely throughout the European middle ages. Three contributions concern terminology for dress. Two deal with multicultural medieval Apulia: an examination of clothing terms in surviving marriage contracts from the tenth to the fourteenth century, and a close focus on an illuminated document made for a prestigious wedding. Turning to Scandinavia, there is an analysis of clothing materials from Norway and Sweden according to gender and social distribution. Further papers consider the economic uses of cloth and clothing: wool production and the dress of the Cistercian community at Beaulieu Abbey based on its 1269-1270 account book, and the use of clothing as pledge or payment in medieval Ireland. In addition, there is a consideration of the history of dagged clothing and its negative significance to moralists, and of the painted hangings that were common in homes of all classes in the sixteenth century. ROBIN NETHERTON is a professional editor and a researcher/lecturer on the interpretation of medieval European dress; GALE R. OWEN-CROCKER is Emerita Professor of Anglo-Saxon Culture at the University of Manchester. Contributors: Antonietta Amati, Eva I. Andersson, John Block Friedman, Susan James, John Oldland, Lucia Sinisi, Mark Zumbuhl
Author : Merideth Wright
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 15,99 MB
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 0486273202
Comprehensive study of late-18th-century clothing worn by settlers and Abenaki Indians of New England. Full descriptions and line drawings with complete instructions for duplicating a wide range of garments: shifts, petticoats, gowns, breeches, waistcoats, headgear, more. Four bibliographies. List of resources. 54 black-and-white illustrations.
Author : Gale R. Owen-Crocker
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 18,96 MB
Release : 2022-09-27
Category :
ISBN : 1783277017
An examination of the fabrics, garments and cloth of the Iberian Middle Ages, bringing out in particular the international context.
Author :
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 13,53 MB
Release : 2020-10-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 1786726173
The history of art in the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance has generally been written as a story of elites: bankers, noblemen, kings, cardinals, and popes and their artistic interests and commissions. Recent decades have seen attempts to recast the story in terms of material culture, but the focus seems to remain on the upper strata of society. In his inclusive analysis of art from 1300 to 1600, Rembrandt Duits rectifies this. Bringing together thought-provoking ideas from art historians, historians, anthropologists and museum curators, The Art of the Poor examines the role of art in the lower social classes of Europe and explores how this influences our understanding of medieval and early modern society. Introducing new themes and raising innovative research questions through a series of thematically grouped short case studies, this book gives impetus to a new field on the cusp of art history, social history, urban archaeology, and historical anthropology. In doing so, this important study helps us re-assess the very concept of 'art' and its function in society.
Author : Alexandra Lester-Makin
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 28,50 MB
Release : 2024-04-23
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 1837650136
An examination of the uses, meanings, and social impact of Viking Age textiles. This volume offers the first full study of archaeological fabrics and their decoration found in the North Atlantic region and dating broadly from the Viking or Norse period. With contributions from both academic scholars and practitioners, it shows how approaching early medieval textiles from archaeological, historical and literary contexts, and through the processes of learning and employing the traditional skills of making them, brings about a more nuanced understanding of early medieval cloths: their creation, use and meanings within their respective societies. The book is divided into two parts. The first, "Textiles and their Interpretation", takes the reader on a journey from how wool was processed in the Viking Age, and the conservator's role in preserving and interpreting archaeological textiles, to different types of analyses that researchers use to understand and explain textiles from across the wide area of the Viking-influenced North Atlantic region. The second, "Understanding through Replicating", investigates the results of practical experiments in the reconstruction of surviving medieval fabrics and the resulting empirical conclusions that can be made about their manufacture and wider cultural implications.
