Renaissance Clothing and the Materials of Memory

by Peter Stallybrass and Ann Rosalind Jones

During the late sixteenth century 'fashion' first took on the sense of restless change in contrast to the older sense of fashioning or making. As fashionings, clothes were perceived as material forms of personal and social identity which made the man or woman. In Renaissance Clothing and the Materials of Memory Jones and Stallybrass argue that the making and transmission of fabrics and clothing were central to the making of Renaissance culture. Their...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521786630
• ISBN13: 9780521786638
• Release Date: February 2001
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 386 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.6" x 9.9"