num_pages: 200
description: The best new research on medieval clothing and textiles drawing from a range of disciplines.The essays here continue in the Journal's tradition of drawing on a range of disciplines. Topics include evidence for dress in multicultural sixth-century Ravenna; the incidence of Byzantine and Oriental silks in ninth- tothirteenth-century Denmark; a new analysis of the chronology of and contexts for the French hood; an examination of the mysterious garment called a bliaut in French literature; a discussion of the vocabulary and loan wordsin Italian/Anglo-Norman mercantile transactions; and revelations that fashions in body hair were an important feature of women's appearance. John Block Friedman Anne Hedeager Krag Karen Margrethe Hskuldsson Olga Magoula Megan Tiddeman Monica L. Wright
language: English
title: Medieval Clothing and Textiles 14
publisher: Boydell Press