Title: Chaucer and costume
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.
Subjects: Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature, Clothing and dress, Clothing and dress in literature, History, History and criticism, Knowledge, Prologues and epilogues, English poetry, history and criticism, middle english, 1100-1500, Costume, great britain, Knowledge and learning, Costume
Places: England
People: Geoffrey Chaucer (d. 1400)
Time periods: Medieval, 500-1500