Chaucer and costume
Subtitle: the secular pilgrims in the General Prologue
By: Laura F. Hodges.
Series: Chaucer studies,; 26
Publisher: D.S. Brewer
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Cambridge [England]; Rochester, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 285
Subjects: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.; Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400 -- Knowledge -- Clothing and dress.; Clothing and dress -- England -- History -- Medieval, 500-1500.; Prologues and epilogues -- History and criticism.; Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature.; Clothing and dress in literature.
Description: "This book presents a literary analysis of the meanings inherent in the costomes of Chaucer's secular pilgrims, illuminating their (non)conformity in their dress to fourteenth-century occupational, socio-political and religious norms. The author discusses the significance of individual fabrics, dyes, accessories, garments, and assembled costumes, and explains technical details and specialist vocabularies for cloth-making, clothing, accessories and armor, drawing on a wealth of contemporary evidence including wills, household inventories, wardrobe accounts, manuscript illuminations and church decoration."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-266) and index.