bequests
BL Harley MS
books
breeches
Category=JBCC3
Category=NHDJ
Civitates Orbis Terrarum
Cloth Breeches
Clothing Bequests
Clothing Culture
costume
Costume Books
dress and identity
early
Early Modern
early modern Europe
eq_bestseller
eq_history
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
eq_society-politics
Francis Thynne
gendered clothing history
Hay Ward
Henry VIII
Jean De Lery
King's Clothes
Lambert Daneau
Late Medieval
legislation
material culture studies
modern
Natural Beauty
Piers Butler
Plain Cloth
renaissance
Russian Costume
social hierarchy fashion analysis
sumptuary
sumptuary laws
Sumptuary Legislation
Sumptuary Proclamations
textile symbolism
Thomas Man
Tomb Effigy
velvet
Velvet Breeches
William Lambarde
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780754638421
- Weight: 566g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Jul 2004
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
Addressing the subject of clothing in relation to such fundamental issues as national identity, social distinction, gender, the body, religion and politics, Clothing Culture, 1350-1650 provides a springboard into one of the most fascinating yet least understood aspects of social and cultural history. Nowhere in medieval and early modern European society was its hierarchical and social divisions more obviously reflected than in the sphere of clothing. Indeed, one of the few constant themes of writers, chroniclers, diarists and commentators from Chaucer to Pepys was the subject of fashion and clothes. Whether it was lauding the magnificence of court, warning against the vanity of fashion, describing the latest modes, or decrying the habit of the lower orders to ape the dress of their social superiors, people throughout history have been fascinated by the symbolism, power and messages that clothes can project. Yet despite this contemporary interest, clothing as a subject of historical enquiry has been a largely neglected field of academic study. Whilst it has been discussed in relation to various disciplines, it has not in many cases found a place as a central topic of analysis in its own right. The essays presented in this volume form part of a growing recent trend to put fashion and clothing back into the centre ground of historical research. From Russia to Rome, Ireland to France, this volume contains a wealth of examples of the numerous ways clothing was shaped by, and helped to shape, medieval and early modern European society. Furthermore, it demonstrates how the study of clothing can illuminate other facets of life and why it deserves to be treated as a central, rather than peripheral, facet of European history.
Catherine Richardson is lecturer in English and History, and Fellow of the Shakespeare Institute at the University of Birmingham.
