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)
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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...