2007

Session 1006: Clothing, Law, and Art

• Dress for Festive Occasions and Mourning: Propriety and Strategies of Values in Early Medieval Frankish and Insular Law Codes
  Olga Magoula, University of Birmingham (UK)
• Clerical Regulation of Women's Garb: The Legatine Constitution of Cardinal Latino Malabranca
  Thomas M. Izbicki, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD (USA)
• Sumptuous Objects in the Age of Sumptuary Laws: Fashion on Gothic Ivories
  Paula Mae Carns, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (USA)

Session 1201: New Thoughts on Old Textiles

• Visual Poetry: Micro-Narratives in the Nordic Oral Tradition, A Reading of the Overhogdal Tapestry
  Lena Elisabeth Norrman, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis (USA)
• A Repository of Anglo-Saxon Embroidery: Anglo-Saxon Stitches and their Modern Counterparts
  Alexandra Mary Lester, Manchester Metropolitan University (UK)
• An Investigation on the Relationship between Textiles and Loom Types Based on a Study of Medieval Textiles from Lödöse and Lübeck
  Kathrine Vestergaard, Kobenhavns Universitet (Denmark)

Session 130: Dress and Textiles I: Clothing and Politics

• Female Costume and Royal Patronage in the Fourteenth Century: The Case of Elizabeth the Elder, Queen of Hungary
  Annamaria Kovacs, Irving, TX (USA)
• The Devil Made Them Wear It: The Politics of Satirizing Fashion in Poetry
  Anne Reaves, Marian College, Indianapolis, IN (USA)
• Cloak and Dagger: Treason and Clothing in Tudor England
  Melanie Schuessler, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti (USA)

Session 223: Dress and Textiles II: Fabrics in Text and Life

• Fabrics in French Medieval Literature: Toward a Taxonomy
  Monica L. Wright, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro (USA)
• Morality and Material Culture: Representation of Dress and Metaphorical Worth in Three Middle English Poems
  Patricia A. Price, California State University-San Marcos (USA)
• Changes in the English Fifteenth-Century Cloth Industry and the Effect on Urban and Rural Clothmaking
  John Oldland, Bishop's University, Sherbrooke, Quebec (CANADA)

Session 297: Dress and Textiles III: Dress in Art and Life

• The Marriage of the Year (1027): Clothing and Society in Medieval Apulia
  Lucia Sinisi, Università di Bari (ITALY)
• Dressing Up: Representations of Fashion on Some French Gothic Ivory Writing Tablets
  Paula Mae Carns, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA)
• The Development of Men's Dress and Armor in the Quattrocento in Italy: Form and Function
  Jasmin W. Cyril, Ringwood, NJ (USA)

Session 362: Dress and Textiles IV: Extant Garments and Accessories

• Hooked on Eyes: Scandinavian Decorative Hook and Eye Sets from the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries
  Anne Marie Decker, Tracy’s Landing, MD (USA)
• The Medieval Shepherd's Purse: Artifact or Artistic Motif?
  Heather Rose Jones, Oakland, CA (USA)
• The Bare Essentials: The Sixteenth-Century Italian Underwear Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of New York
  Kathy Page, St. George, Ontario (CANADA)

In addition to the above sessions, DISTAFF presented a "Medieval Textile/Textile Arts Display and Demonstration," May 10, 5:45 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. DISTAFF members exhibited reproduction textile and dress items, handmade using medieval methods and materials, including textiles, decorative treatments, garments, and dress accessories. Exhibitors demonstrated techniques and were available to discuss the use of historic evidence in reproducing artifacts of material culture.