Medieval Fabrications: Dress, Textiles, Clothwork, and Other Cultural Imaginings

Book Overview

The varied cultural functions of dress, textiles and clothwork provide an especially cogent lens through which to re-examine our assumptions about the Middle Ages because of the topic's conceptual breadth. Its implications range from the highly theoretical to the very concrete. At one end of the spectrum, questions of dress call up feminist theoretical investigations into the body and subjectivity, while broadening those inquiries to include theories...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1403961875
• ISBN13: 9781403961877
• Release Date: April 2005
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 279 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.5" x 8.3"