Dress in the Middle Ages
By: Françoise Piponnier and Perrine Mane ; translated by Caroline Beamish.
Contributors: Mane, Perrine.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 167
Subjects: Clothing and dress -- History -- Medieval, 500-1500; Clothing and dress in art; Civilization, Medieval
Description: "This absorbing survey of medieval clothing makes an important and unique contribution to our understanding of the cultural and social conditions of western Europe in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Drawing on paintings and sculpture, documents and literature, surviving clothing, textiles, jewellery and armour, Francoise Piponnier and Perrine Mane show that garments and accessories of the Middle Ages reveal much about life and society of the time. Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [157]-163).