Clothing the Past : Surviving Garments from Early Medieval to Early Modern Western Europe
Subtitle: Surviving Garments from Early Medieval to Early Modern Western Europe
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 453
ISBN-13: 9789004288706
Subjects: Clothing and dress; Industries, europe
Description: An astonishing number of medieval garments survive, more-or-less complete. Here the authors present 100 items, ranging from homely to princely. The book's wide-ranging introduction discusses the circumstances in which garments have survived to the present; sets and collections; constructional and decorative techniques; iconography; inscriptions on garments; style and fashion. Detailed descriptions and discussions explain technique and ornament, investigate alleged associations with famous people (many of them spurious) and demonstrate, even when there are no known associations, how a garment may reveal its own biography: a story that can include repair, remaking, recycling; burial, resurrection and veneration; accidental loss or deliberate deposition.