Dressing Up: Cultural Identity in Renaissance Europe

by Ulinka Rublack

Book Overview

Dressing Up shows why clothes made history and history can be about clothes. It imagines the Renaissance afresh by considering people's appearances: what they wore, how this made them move, what images they created, and how all this made people feel about themselves. Using an astonishing array of sources, Ulinka Rublack argues that an appreciation of people's relationship to appearances and images is essential to an understanding of what it meant...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199298742
• ISBN13: 9780199298747
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 2.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 9.8" x 6.9"