Medieval Clothing and Textiles 14 - Hardcover

[A]nother extremely successful volume of /Medieval Clothing and Textiles/ and will remain a useful resource for researchers of textiles of all periods and places. THE MEDIEVAL REVIEW

The essays here continue in the Journal's tradition of drawing on a range of disciplines. Topics include evidence for dress in multicultural sixth-century Ravenna; the incidence of Byzantine and Oriental silks in ninth- to thirteenth-century Denmark; a new analysis of the chronology of and contexts for the French hood; an examination of the mysterious garment called a bliaut in French literature; a discussion of the vocabulary and loan words in Italian/Anglo-Norman mercantile transactions; and revelations that fashions in body hair were an important feature of women's appearance.