The best new research on medieval clothing and textiles, drawing from a range of disciplines.
The essays collected here continue to showcase the Journal's wide-ranging and eclectic tradition. The topics addressed are the sensory perceptions of textiles in Early Medieval Britain; evidence of the global textile trade as reflected in church facades in Lucca, Italy; the ways in which spinning and weaving in late medieval Cologne influenced the presentation of the cult of the Eleven Thousand Virgins within the city; sumptuary legislation in thirteenth-century Montauban, in the Occitan region of Southern France; visual representations of male underwear in northern European art; and the late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century trade in knitted jersey stockings in Norwich and Yarmouth.
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1. Archaeological Textiles, Senses, Perception and Use: How Sensory
Perceptions Affected Textile Use in Early Medieval Britain (450-1100 CE) -
Alexandra Lester-Makin
2. Reflecting A Woven Identity: The Global Textile Trade and Two Lucchese
Church Facades - Tania Kolarik
3. Clothing the City's Martyrs: Weaving and Spinning in Late Medieval Cologne
and Devotion to the Cult of the Eleven Thousand Virgins - Claire W. Kilgore
4. The Detailed Lexicon of Ladies' Apparel in Montauban's Sumptuary Laws of
1275 and 1291 - Sarah-Grace Heller
5. Semper Ubi Sub Ubi: Representations of Male Underwear in Northern European
art, 1140-1450 - Carla Tilghman
6. The Trade in Knitted Jersey Stockings, and their Creation by Child
Knitters in Norwich and Yarmouth around 1600 - Lesley O'Connell Edwards
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MELANIE SCHUESSLER BOND is the Professor of Costume Design at Eastern Michigan University. CORDELIA WARR is Professor of Medieval and Renaissance Art at the University of Manchester, UK. She has published on a variety of topics including medieval and early-modern religious clothing in Italy, art in Naples, as well as miraculous wounds. Alexandra Lester-Makin is the Post-Doctoral Researcher for textiles on 'Unwrapping the Galloway Hoard', an Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded project jointly run by the National Museum of Scotland the University of Glasgow. SARAH-GRACE HELLER is Associate Professor and Chair of French and Italian at the Ohio State University.
