Encountering Medieval Textiles and Dress: Objects, Texts, Images

Bys: Koslin, Desiree G. and Snyder, Janet Ellen

Book Overview

This broad-reaching collection of essays constitutes a thorough introduction to the fields and methodologies concerned with studies of textiles and dress of the Middle Ages. New themes and critical viewpoints from many disciplines are brought to bear on the medieval material in the areas of archaeology, art and architecture, economics, law, history, literature, religion, and textile technology. The contributors address surviving objects and artifacts...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230602355
• ISBN13: 9780230602359
• Release Date: February 2009
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"