A Cultural History of Dress and Fashion in the Medieval Age

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During the medieval period, people invested heavily in looking good. The finest fashions demanded careful chemistry and compounds imported from great distances and at considerable risk to merchants; the Church became a major consumer of both the richest and humblest varieties of cloth, shoes, and adornment; and vernacular poets began to embroider their stories with hundreds of verses describing a plethora of dress styles, fabrics, and shopping experiences. Drawing on a wealth of pictorial, textual and object sources, the volume examines how dress cultures developed ¿ often to a degree of dazzling sophistication ¿ between the years 800 to 1450. Beautifully illustrated with 90 images, <i>A Cultural History of Dress and Fashion in the Medieval Age </i>presents an overview of the period with essays on textiles, production and distribution, the body, belief, gender and sexuality, status, ethnicity, visual representations, and literary representations.