Medieval Clothing and Textiles 17 by Cordelia Warr, Anne Kirk... - 9781783275984

Name: Medieval Clothing and Textiles 17 by Cordelia Warr, Anne Kirk... - 9781783275984
Brand: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Medieval Clothing and Textiles 17Author(s): Cordelia Warr, Anne Kirkham, Robin Netherton, Gale R Owen-Crocker, Monica L Wright, Catherine Besson-Lagier, Charles Farris, Karen Margrethe Hskuldsson, Maria Neijman, Amica Sundstrm\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: The Boydell Press\nISBN-13: 9781783275984, 978-1783275984\nSynopsis\nThe best new research on medieval clothing and textiles, drawing from a variety of angles and approaches.\n\nThe 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 al.