Hilary Davidson and Ieva Pigozne Archaeological Dress and Textiles in Latvia from the Seventh to Thirteenth Centuries: Research, Results, and Reconstructions
Valerie L. Garver Weaving Words in Silk: Women and Inscribed Bands in the Carolingian World
Christine Sciacca Stitches, Sutures, and Seams: `Embroidered' Parchment Repairs in Medieval Manuscripts
Sarah L. Higley Dressing Up the Nuns: The Lingua Ignota and Hildegard of Bingen's Clothing
William Sayers Flax and Linen in Walter of Bibbesworth's Thirteenth-Century French Treatise for English Housewives
Roger A. Ladd The London Mercers' Company, London Textual Culture, and John Gower's Mirour de l'Omme
Kate Kelsey Staples Fripperers and the Used Clothing Trade in Late Medieval London
Charlotte A. Stanford Donations from the Body for the Soul: Apparel, Devotion and Status in Late Medieval Strasbourg
The best new research on medieval clothing and textiles, drawing from a range of disciplines.
This latest volume examining aspects of clothing and textiles in the middle ages ranges widely throughout both Europe and England. It includes two groundbreaking articles in novel areas of textile and dress scholarship: an introduction to a previously unexamined class of embroidery (decorative manuscript repair), and an English-language overview of scholarly research on historical dress in Latvia. Among the other topics considered in the volume are are two very different listings of clothing items from medieval Germany: an invented lexicon by a cloistered mystic, Hildegard of Bingen, and an accounting of specific real garments worn by ordinary people and donated to finance the building of Strasbourg Cathedral. The mercantile world of clothing in medieval London (dealers of secondhand clothing from the evidence of historical documents the representation of the socially-rising mercers in literature is the focus of another two pieces); other articles consider luxurious dress accessories with both worldly and spiritual significance, and analyse a French manual for English housewives, illuminating the often-overlooked topic of home linen production. Contributors: Hilary Davidson, Ieva Pigozne, Valerie L. Garver, Christine Sciacca, Sarah L. Higley, William Sayers, Roger A. Ladd, Kate Kelsey Staples, Charlotte A. Stanford.
