Louise Sylvester Medieval Dress and Textiles in Britain (Hardback)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: Medieval Dress and Textiles in BritainCondition: NewEAN: 9781843839323ISBN: 9781843839323Publisher: The Boydell PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 10/16/2014Item Height: 244mmItem Length: 172mmLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: A Multilingual SourcebookISBN-10: 1843839326Description: A vital sourcebook for information on clothing and textiles in the middle ages, containing many previously unprinted documents.Texts (with modern English translation) offering insights into the place of cloth and clothing in everyday life are presented here. Covering a wide range of genres, they include documents from the royal wardrobe accounts and petitions to king and Parliament, previously available only in manuscript form. The accounts detail royal expenditure on fabrics and garments, while the petitions demand the restoration of livery, for example, or protest about the needfor winter clothing for children who are wards of the king. In addition, the volume includes extracts from wills, inventories and rolls of livery, sumptuary laws, moral and satirical works condemning contemporary fashions, an OldEnglish epic, and English and French romances. The texts themselves are in Old and Middle English, Latin and Anglo-Norman French, with some of the documents switching between more than one of these languages. They are presented with introduction, glossary and detailed notes. Louise M. Sylvester is Reader in English Language at the University of Westminster; Mark Chambers is a Post-Doctoral Research Associate at Durham University; Gale R. Owen-Crocker is Professor of Anglo-Saxon Culture at the University of Manchester.Country/Region of Manufacture: GBContributor: Mark C Chambers (Edited by), Louise Sylvester (Edited by), Gale R Owen-Crocker (Edited by)Genre: HistoryBook Series: Medieval and Renaissance Clothing and TextilesItem Weight: 1gTopic: Society & CultureAuthor: Louise SylvesterRelease Year: 2014 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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