Medieval Clothing and Textiles 8 - Hardcover

A rewarding combination of archaeological, documentary, literary and representational evidence...which remains essential reading for anyone interested in this field of study. TEXT

This series is an excellent forum for new research around the world in medieval textiles and dress and the papers merit wider reading. MEDIEVAL ARCHAEOLOGY

A book to be recommended. COSTUME

This volume continues the series' tradition of bringing together work on clothing and textiles from across Europe. It has a strong focus on gold: subjects include sixth-century German burials containing sumptuous jewellery and bands brocaded with gold; the textual evidence for recycling such gold borders and bands in the later Anglo-Saxon period; and a semantic classification of words relating to gold in multi-lingual medieval Britain. It also rescues significant archaeological textiles from obscurity: there is a discussion of early medieval headdresses from The Netherlands, and an examination of a fifteenth-century Italian cushion, an early example of piecework. Finally, uses of dress and textiles in literature are explored in a survey of the Welsh Mabinogion and Jean Renart's Roman de la Rose.