Dressing the part : textiles as propaganda in the Middle Ages
2014, First Edition. Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Provenance; bookplate of Capt Richard Campbell, OBE, RN. Item #476777
Physical description; 213 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 29 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references. Contents; Introduction / Kate Dimitrova and Margaret Goehring – Pictorial textiles and their performance: the Star Mantle of Henry II / David Ganz – Orthodox liturgical textiles and clerical self-referentiality / Warren T. Woodfin – The Epitaphoi of Stephen the Great / Henry Schilb – Liturgical textiles as papal donations in late medieval Italy / Christiane Elster – Monument in linen: a thirteenth-century embroidered catafalque cover for the members of the Beata Stirps of Saint Elizabeth of Hungary / Stefanie Seeberg – Cultures re-shaped: textiles from the Castilian royal tombs in Santa Maria de las Huelgas in Burgos / Kristin Böse – 'So lyvely in cullers and gilting': vestments on episcopal tomb effigies in England / Catherine Walden – Material evidence, theological requirements and medial transformation: 'textile strategies' in the court art of Charles IV / Evelin Wetter – Weaving legitimacy: the Jouvenel des Ursins family and the construction of nobility in fifteenth-century France / Jennifer E. Courts – Textiles in the Great Mongol Shahnama: a new approach to Ilkhanid dress / Yuka Kadoi. Subjects; Clothing and dress – Social aspects – History – To 1500. Textile fabrics – Social aspects – History – To 1500. Church vestments – History. Power (Social sciences) – History – To 1500. Propaganda – History – To 1500.
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