Clothing Culture, 1350-1650

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Pub. Date: 2016-02-16
Publisher(s): Routledge
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Summary

Tackling the issue of clothing in relation to such fundamental issues as national identity, social distinction, gender, the body, religion and politics, Clothing Culture, 1350-1650 provides a springboard into one of the most fascinating yet least understood aspects of social and cultural history.Nowhere in medieval and early modern European society was its hierarchical and social divisions more obviously reflected than in the sphere of clothing. Indeed, one of the few constant themes of writers, chroniclers, diarists and commentators - from Chaucer to Pepys - was the subject of fashion and clothes. Whether it was lauding the magnificence of court, warning against the vanity of fashion, describing the latest modes, or decrying the habit of the lower orders to ape the dress of their social superiors, people throughout history have been fascinated by the symbolism, power and messages that clothes can project.

Table of Contents

General Editor's Preface vii
List of Illustrations viii
List of Tables xi
List of Contributors xii
Acknowledgements xv
List of Abbreviations xvi
1 Introduction
Catherine Richardson
1(28)
Section One: Fabrics of Nation
2 The Cultural Significance of Costume Books in Sixteenth-Century Europe
29(20)
Ulrike Ilg
3 A Question of Nation: Foreign Clothes on the English Subject
49(14)
Roze Hentschell
4 Tomb Effigies and Archaic Dress in Sixteenth-Century Ireland
63(14)
Elizabeth Wincott Heckett
5 The Formation of Russian Women's Costume at the Time before the Reforms of Peter the Great
77(18)
Oksana Sekatcheva
Section Two: Marking Distinctions
6 Clothing Courtesans: Fabrics, Signals, and Experiences
95(14)
Tessa Storey
7 Clothing the Naked in Late Medieval East Kent
109(14)
Sheila Sweetinburgh
8 Dress, Nudity and Calvinist Culture in Sixteenth-Century France
123(14)
Graeme Murdock
9 Social Fabric in Thynne's Debate Between Pride and Lowliness
137
Claire Bartram
Section Three: Material Movements
10 Clothing Distributions and Social Relations c.1350-1500
153(12)
Joanna Crawford
11 Fashion, Finance, Foreign Politics and the Wardrobe of Henry VIII
165(14)
Maria Hayward
12 Reworked Material: Discourses of Clothing Culture in Early Sixteenth-Century Greenwich
179(16)
Elisabeth Salter
Section Four: Discourse, Body, Gender
13 'This one poore blacke gowne lined with white': The Clothing of the Sixteenth-Century English Book
195(14)
Helen Smith
14 'Havying nothing upon hym saving onely his sherte': Event, Narrative and Material Culture in Early Modern England
209(14)
Catherine Richardson
15 Rips and Slits: The Torn Garment and the Medieval Self
223(16)
Andrea Denny-Brown
16 Speaking to Reveal: The Body and Acts of 'Exposure' in Early Modern Popular Discourse
239(24)
Elizabeth Hallam
Bibliography 263(24)
Index 287

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