Screen LibraryCourtly love undressed : reading through clothes in medieval french culture /
In the later Middle Ages clothing was used to mark religious, military, and chivalric orders; in the courtly milieu, more specifically, the ostentatious display of luxury dress was used as a means of self-definition for the ruling elite. In Courtly Love Undressed, E. Jane Burns explores the represen...
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University of Pennsylvania Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Philadelphia, Pa. : |
| Publication Dates: |
[2002] ©2002 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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The middle ages series
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| Summary: |
In the later Middle Ages clothing was used to mark religious, military, and chivalric orders; in the courtly milieu, more specifically, the ostentatious display of luxury dress was used as a means of self-definition for the ruling elite. In Courtly Love Undressed, E. Jane Burns explores the representation of this material culture in the literary texts and other documents that imagine various functions for elite clothing in twelfth- and thirteenth-century France. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (336 pages) : illustrations. |
| ISBN: | 9780812291247 |
| Index Number: | PQ155 |
| CLC: | I565.06 |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction The Damsel's Sleeve: Reading Through Clothes in Courtly Love -- 1 Fortune's Gown: Material Extravagance and the Opulence of Love -- 2 Amorous Attire: Dressing Up for Love -- 3 Love's Stitches Undone: Women's Work in the chanson de toile -- 4 Robes, Armor, and Skin -- 5 From Woman s Nature to Nature's Dress -- 6 Saracen Silk: Dolls, Idols, and Courtly Ladies -- 7 Golden Spurs: Love in the Eastern World of Floire et Blancheflor -- Coda: Marie de Champagne and the Matiere of Courtly Love -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments. |