Medieval Clothing and Textiles 2

Robin Netherton is a costume historian specializing in Western European clothing of the Middle Ages and its interpretation by artists and historians. Gale R. Owen-Crocker is Professor Emerita of the University of Manchester where she was previously Professor of Anglo-Saxon Culture and Director of the Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies. Gale R. Owen-Crocker is Professor Emerita of the University of Manchester where she was previously Professor of Anglo-Saxon Culture and Director of the Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies. Monica L. Wright is the Granger and Debaillon Professor of French and Medieval Studies at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA. Her research focuses on the use of clothing in medieval French literature.

• Dress and Accessories in the Early Irish Tale "The Wooing of Becfhola" - Niamh WhitfieldThe Embroidered Word: Text in the Bayeux Tapestry - Gale R. Owen-Crocker"De Fil d'Or et de Soie": Making Textiles in Twelfth-Century French Romances - Monica L. WrightBiffes, Tiretaines, and Aumonières: The Role of Paris in the International Textile Markets of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth CenturiesFourteenth Centuries - Sharon Farmer"Clothing Themselves in Acres": Apparel and Impoverishment in Medieval and Early Modern England - Margaret Rose Jaster"Ye Shall Have It Clene": Textile Cleaning Techniques in Renaissance Europe - Drea LeedFleas, Fur, and Fashion: Zibellini as Luxury Accessories of the Renaissance - Tawny SherrillThe Matron Goes to the Masque: The Dual Identity of the English Embroidered Jacket - Danielle Nunn-Weinberg

The quality of papers is notably high and will be of interest to others beyond medieval historians of textiles and dress. [It] will engage anyone interested in the study of textiles and dress of western medieval Europe; additionally scholars of economic history, social history, literature and art history will find articles of interest.