Medieval Clothing and Textiles: Volumes 1-3 [Set]

Now available as a specially-priced set, the first three volumes of these wide-ranging volumes cover a range of topics and periods from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance.

Historical dress and textiles, always a topic of popular interest, has in recent years become an academic subject in its own right, transcending traditional genre boundaries. This annual journal includes in-depth studies from a variety of disciplines. The contents cover a broad geographical scope and a range of periods from the early Middle Ages to the Renaissance.

The first three volumes are now available as a specially-priced set. Topics coveredinclude: Anglo-Saxon embroidery; textiles and textile imagery in the Exeter Book; the Latin inscription embroidered on the Bayeux Tapestry; clothmaking in twelfth-century French romances; medieval Paris as an internationaltextile market; the use of jewelled animal pelts as fashion accessories in the Renaissance; soft furnishings; aristocratic children's clothing, and much more.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1843834200
• ISBN13: 9781843834205
• Release Date: May 2008
• Publisher: Boydell Press
• Length: 648 Pages
• Weight: 3.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.3" x 6.5" x 9.5"