International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI (May 10-13, 2012)

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Session 172: Dress and Textiles I: Studies in Memory of Verna Rutz

• Precious Offerings: Dressing Devotional Statues in Medieval England
  Maren Clegg Hyer, Valdosta State Univ.
• Making It Fit: Poetry in Stitches
  Anna Riehl Bertolet, Auburn Univ.
• Inventing the Wheel, Again: Returning to the Late Elizabethan Farthingale
  Robin Netherton

Session 194:Dress and Textiles II: What Not to Wear

• Disorder in the Courts: A Reappraisal of Medieval Sumptuary Law
  Laurel Ann Wilson, Independent Scholar
• Angevin Sicilian and French Sumptuary Laws of the 1290s: Furs, Trains, and New Clothes
  Sarah-Grace Heller, Ohio State Univ.
• What Does Five Marks Buy?: A Comparison between the 1363 English Sumptuary Law and Fabric Prices in Late Medieval England
  Sarai Silverman, Ohio State Univ.
• Men in Tights: Shameful Fashion in The Parson’s Tale
  Mary C. Flannery, Queen Mary, Univ. of London

Session 277:Dress and Textiles III: Dress and Textile Vocabulary Revealed

• Atir, Apparaill, Clathis, Vesture: Linguistic Choices Relating To Dress And Textiles across Different Text Types
  Louise Sylvester
• “Embroidered in Gold with Stars”: The Inventories of Saint Paul’s Cathedral
  Gale R. Owen-Crocker, Univ. of Manchester
• A Household Bespoke: Language and Dress in the Fourteenth-Century Roll ofLiveries of Elizabeth, Countess of Holland
  Mark Chambers, Univ. of Westminster