International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan (May 7-10, 1998)

Session 255: Textiles and Dress I: Physical Needs, Physical Comforts

• To Die; To Sleep: The Bed in the Grave in Anglo-Saxon England
  John Hines, University of Wales, Cardiff (UK)
• Cushioning Medieval Life
  Elizabeth Coatsworth, Manchester Metropolitan University (UK)
• What the Men Saw: Physical Aspects of Women's Costume as Described in the Literature of England, 1250-1350
  Traci Austin Straatmann, University of Nebraska at Lincoln (USA)

Session 303: Textiles and Dress II: Physical Needs, Physical Comforts

• New Clothes for a Bog Man
  Lois Swales, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY (USA)
• Clothing and a Thirteenth Century Household: A Practical Approach
  Susan Carroll-Clark, University of Toronto (CANADA)