Encountering Medieval Textiles and Dress: Objects, Texts, Images

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September 12, 2006

Désirée G. Koslin and Janet E. Snyder, eds. Encountering Medieval Textiles and Dress: Objects, Texts, Images New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. 288 pp.; 27 b/w ills. Cloth $59.95 (0312293771)

Stephen M. Wagner

CrossRef DOI: 10.3202/caa.reviews.2006.96

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If it is historically true that “clothing makes the man,” this collection of essays determines how that dictum was enacted in the Middle Ages. Désirée Koslin and Janet Snyder have assembled a variety of articles exploring medieval fashion and dress with a truly interdisciplinary approach. The scope of the collection is broad in several ways. The essays discuss textiles and dress diachronically from the Merovingian period of the seventh century to the sixteenth century. They...