Fashion in Medieval France

by Sarah-Grace Heller

How to distinguish between a culture organized around fashion, and one where the desire for novel adornment is latent, intermittent, or prohibited? Up to now there has been a need for a comprehensive working theory of how fashion systems organize social hierarchies, individual psychology, creativity, and production. Medieval French culture offers a case study of "systematic fashion", demonstrating desire for novelty, rejection of the old in favor...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 184384110X
• ISBN13: 9781843841104
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 9.5"