NNNInnovative book by a leading expert in archaeological textiles. York, UK: Council for British Archaeology, 2007. Cloth and Clothing in Early Anglo-Saxon England, AD 450–700. Originally published as Das Stickereiwerk (Tübingen, Germany: Verlag Ernst Wasmuth, 1963). NNNIllustrated catalogue of embroideries from the 4th to the early 20th century, mostly western European and with many examples of early and late medieval work (mainly ecclesiastical vestments). Schuette, Marie, and Sigrid Müller-Christensen. First published as Se vêtir au Moyen Âge (Paris: Société Nouvelle Adam Biro, 1995). NNNA wide-ranging social history of dress in later medieval Europe, arranged thematically, with glossary and bibliography, but without notes. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1997. Includes consideration of change and fashion. Examines archaeological, documentary, and artistic sources. NNNConsiders secular, military, and ecclesiastical dress, both in general terms and in relation to surviving individual garments, and the significance of particular garment names, with individual bibliographies. Leiden, The Netherlands, and Boston: Brill, 2012. Encyclopedia of Medieval Dress and Textiles of the British Isles c. 450–1450. Owen-Crocker, Gale R., Elizabeth Coatsworth, and Maria Hayward, eds. Concerned to explain the usefulness and limitations of different sources for different periods, whether text, art, or archaeology. NNNA guide to English dress c. 450–1080s, giving a broad regional and chronological picture with details of exceptional examples. Dress in Anglo-Saxon England: Revised and Enlarged Edition. It also considers textile production and techniques and the use of furs. NNNA wide-ranging, generously illustrated account that shows the fashion-consciousness of Viking people and their love of fine fabrics, drawing on art (picture stones and manuscripts), archaeology, and text. NNNStill an established textbook despite its age. NNNThe only (remarkably) comprehensive and comprehensively illustrated catalogue of all embroideries known as opus anglicanum, and therefore incidentally the only catalogue of ecclesiastical vestments believed to have been made in England, though now located across museums and ecclesiastical treasuries throughout Europe.Ĭunnington, Cecil Willett, and Phillis Cunnington. English Medieval Embroidery: A Brief Survey of English Embroidery Dating from the Beginning of the Tenth Century until the End of the Fourteenth, Together with a Descriptive Catalogue of the Surviving Examples: Illustrated with One Hundred and Sixty Plates and Numerous Drawings in the Text. See also Johnstone 2002 (cited under Liturgical Garments).Ĭhristie, A. Both contrast with regional studies of garments, such as Ewing 2006, and of vestments, such as Durian-Ress 1986 (cited under Museum and Other Catalogues), in which a range of vestments of varying materials, techniques, costliness, and quality appear. Christie 1938 and Schuette and Müller-Christensen 1964 provide overviews of the most luxurious and ecclesiastical vestments, with the former still invaluable for its coverage of English examples, and the latter less focused on one area but ranging across western Europe. There is a shortage of scholarly and specific works on later dress, and Cunnington and Cunnington 1973 and Piponnier and Mane 1997 remain the most used sources. Dress is covered in detail for the earliest English period in Owen-Crocker 2004, and Walton Rogers 2007 examines early Anglo-Saxon dress through an analysis of textiles. 2012 is a dedicated encyclopedia of medieval dress and textiles of the British Isles. Apart from ecclesiastical dress and examinations of the clothing of royalty, there are relatively few studies of particular social groups, and for this reason the authors of this bibliography have included such writing as there is on issues such as maternity clothing, underwear and children’s garments. Many writers have worked within geographical or chronological divisions, but there are also wider-ranging comparative studies. Approaches through vocabulary at their most basic level discuss the meaning of documented clothing terms, but also reveal semantic change and the code-switching that was typical within the multilingual cultures of late medieval Europe. The topic is often approached through art history, documentary sources (both literary and nonliterary), and, increasingly in recent times, social theory. Evidence includes primary material, much of which is archaeological, though a surprising amount of medieval clothing has survived above ground, usually, but not exclusively, ecclesiastical. The study of dress, including as it does both under- and outerwear and indications of age, ethnicity, gender, status, and occupation, is perhaps the most intimate form of social and cultural history.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |