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Book SynopsisThe best new research on medieval clothing and textiles, drawing from a variety of angles and approaches. The essays here take us from the eleventh century, with an exploration of the Bayeux Tapestry, into an examination and reconstruction of an extant thirteenth-century sleeve in France which provides a rare and early example of medieval quilted armour, and finally on to late medieval Sweden and the reconstruction of gilt-leather intarsia coverlets. A study of construction techniques and the evolution of form of gable and French hoods in the late medieval and the early modern periods follows; and the volume also includes a study of the Great Wardrobe under Edward I of England, and what it can tell us about textiles at the time.
Table of ContentsPreface Embroidered Beasts: Animals in the Bayeux Tapestry - Gale R. Owen-Crocker The Sleeve from Bussy-Saint-Martin: A Rare Example of Medieval Quilted Armor - Catherine Besson-Lagier The Administration of Cloth and Clothing in the Great Wardrobe of Edward I - Charles Farris Hanging Together: Furnishing Textiles in a Fifteenth-Century Book of Hours - Anne Kirkham Gilt-leather Embroideries from Medieval Sweden and Finland -Amica Sundström and Maria Neijman From Hennin to Hood: An Analysis of the Evolution of the English Hood Compared to the Evolution of the French Hood -Karen Margrethe Høskuldsson
