Medieval Clothing and Textiles journal

All papers presented at DISTAFF sessions are considered for publication in Medieval Clothing and Textiles, an annual journal published by Boydell & Brewer and edited by DISTAFF organizers Robin Netherton and Gale R. Owen-Crocker. The journal also welcomes other paper submissions in any area of medieval and early modern dress and textile research. Potential authors are encouraged to query the editors by contacting Robin Netherton and Gale Owen-Crocker before sending manuscripts. For MC&T's author guidelines, click here.

The journal represents a variety of scholarly disciplines, including art history, literature, social history, economics, archaeology, and experimental reconstruction. Lists of the contents of each volume are available on the Boydell & Brewer website.

Medieval Clothing and Textiles I


Edited by Robin Netherton
Edited by Gale R. Owen-Crocker
Published: 23 March 2005
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Table of Contents
1 Stitches in Time: Establishing a History of Anglo-Saxon Embroidery
2 Textiles and Textile Imagery in the Exeter Book
3 Pomp, Piety, and Keeping the Woman in her Place: The Dress of Cnut and Ælfgifu-Emma
4 Wrapped in a Blue Mantle: Fashions for Icelandic Slayers?
5 The Orientation of Strikers in Medieval Fulling Mills: The Role of the `French' Gualchiera
6 Bad Habits: Clothing and Textile References in the Register of Eudes Rigaud, Archbishop of Rouen
7 Forbidden Colors in the Regulation of Clerical Dress from the Fourth Lateran Council (1215) to the time of Nicholas of Cusa (d. 1464)(d. 1464)
8 The Tippet: Accessory after the Fact?
9 Threads Bared: Dress and Textiles in Late Medieval English Wills
10 Giovanna Cenami's Veil: A Neglected Detail



Medieval Clothing and Textiles 2

Edited by Robin Netherton
Edited by Gale R. Owen-Crocker
Published: 20 Apr 2006
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Contents

1 Dress and Accessories in the Early Irish Tale "The Wooing of Becfhola"
2 The Embroidered Word: Text in the Bayeux Tapestry
3 "De Fil d'Or et de Soie": Making Textiles in Twelfth-Century French Romances
4 Biffes, Tiretaines, and Aumonières: The Role of Paris in the International Textile Markets of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth CenturiesFourteenth Centuries
5 "Clothing Themselves in Acres": Apparel and Impoverishment in Medieval and Early Modern England
6 "Ye Shall Have It Clene": Textile Cleaning Techniques in Renaissance Europe
7 Fleas, Fur, and Fashion: Zibellini as Luxury Accessories of the Renaissance
8 The Matron Goes to the Masque: The Dual Identity of the English Embroidered Jacket

Medieval Clothing and Textiles 3

Edited by Robin Netherton
Edited by Gale R. Owen-Crocker
Published: 19 Apr 2007
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Contents
1 Preface
2 Cushioning Medieval Life: Domestic Textiles in Anglo-Saxon England
3 A Matter of Style: Clerical Vestments in the Anglo-Saxon Church
4 Saints in Split Stitch: Representations of Saints in Opus Anglicanum Vestments
5 The Anti-Red Shift - To the Dark Side: Colour Changes in Flemish Luxury Woollens, 1300-1550
6 The Finishing of English Woollens, 1300-1550
7 Poverty and Richly Decorated Garments: A Re-Evaluation of Their Significance in the Vita Christi of Isabel de Villena
8 "Set on Yowre Hondys": Fifteenth-Century Instructions for Fingerloop Braiding
9 Tiny Textiles Hidden in Books: Toward a Categorization of Multiple-Strand Bookmarkers
10 "She Hath Over Grown All that Ever She Hath": Children's Clothing in the Lisle Letters, 1553-40
11 Recent Books of Interest
12 Index
13 Contents of Previous Volumes

Medieval Clothing and Textiles 4

Edited by Robin Netherton
Edited by Gale R. Owen-Crocker
Published: 17 Jul 2008
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Contents
1 From Flax to Linen in the Medieval Rus Lands
2 "Melius Abundare Quam Deficere": Scarlet Clothing in Laxdaela Saga and Njals Saga
3 The Wandering Wimple
4 From Head to Hand to Arm: The Lexicological History of "Cuff"
5 Visual Textiles: A Study of Appearance and Visual Impression in Archaeologi cal Textiles
6 The Cap of St. Birgitta
7 The View from Herjolfsnes: Greenland's Translation of the European Fitted Fashion
8 The Art of the Exotic: Robinet Testard's Turbans and Turban-like Coiffure
9 "The Same Counterpoincte Beinge Olde and Worene": The Mystery of Henry VIII 's Green Quilt
10 Recent Books of Interest
11 Contents of Previous Volumes
12 Index

Medieval Clothing and Textiles 5

Edited by Robin Netherton
Edited by Gale R. Owen-Crocker
Published: 19 Mar 2009
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Contents
1 Clothing and Conflict in the Icelandic Family Sagas: Literary Convention and the Discourse of Power
2 Obscure Lands and Obscured Hands: Fairy Embroidery and the Ambiguous Vocabulary of Medieval Textile Decoration
3 Failed Censures: Ecclesiastical Regulation of Women's Clothing in Late Medieval Italy
4 Cutting a Fine Figure: Costume on French Gothic Ivories
5 One Quilt or Two? A Reassessment of the Guicciardini Quilts in the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Museo del Bargello
6 French Hoods: Development of a Sixteenth-Century Court Fashion
7 Who Was Cesare Vecellio? Placing Habiti Antichi in Context
8 Recent Books of Interest
9 Contents of Previous Volumes

Medieval Clothing and Textiles 6

Edited by Robin Netherton
Edited by Gale R. Owen-Crocker
Published: 15 Apr 2010
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Contents
1 Preface
2 Archaeological Dress and Textiles in Latvia from the Seventh to Thirteenth Centuries: Research, Results, and Reconstructions
3 Weaving Words in Silk: Women and Inscribed Bands in the Carolingian World
4 Stitches, Sutures, and Seams: "Embroidered" Parchment Repairs in Medieval Manuscripts
5 Dressing Up the Nuns: The Lingua Ignota and Hildegard of Bingen's Clothing
6 Flax and Linen in Walter of Bibbesworth's Thirteenth-Century French Treatise for English Housewives
7 The London Mercers' Company, London Textual Culture, and John Gower's Mirour de l'Omme
8 Fripperers and the Used Clothing Trade in Late Medieval London
9 Donations from the Body for the Soul: Apparel, Devotion, and Status in Late Medieval Strasbourg
10 Recent Books of Interest

Medieval Clothing and Textiles 7

Edited by Robin Netherton
Edited by Gale R. Owen-Crocker
Published: 10 Jun 2011
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Contents
1 Preface
2 The Empress's New Clothes: A Rotulus Pannorum of Isabella, Sister of King Henry III, Bride of Emperor Frederick II
3 Unveiling Social Fashion Patterns: A Case Study of Frilled Veils in the Low Countries [1200-1500]
4 What Is the Pearl-Maiden Wearing, and Why?
5 "Hys surcote was ouert": The "Open Surcoat" in Late Medieval British Texts
6 London Merchants' Cloth Exports, 1350-1500
7 Laboreria Sete: Design and Production of Lucchese Silks in the Late Fourteenth and Early Fifteenth Centuries
8 Recent Books of Interest
9 Contents of Previous Volumes

Medieval Clothing and Textiles 8

Edited by Robin Netherton
Edited by Gale R. Owen-Crocker
Published: 19 Jul 2012
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Contents
1 Preface
2 The Unterhaching Grave Finds: Richly Dressed Burials from Sixth-Century Bavaria
3 Old Finds Rediscovered: Two Early Medieval Headdresses from the National Museum of Antiquities, Leiden, the Netherlands
4 Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: Imagined and Reimagined Textiles in Anglo-Saxon England
5 Mining for Gold: Investigating a Semantic Classification in the Lexis of Cloth and Clothing Project
6 Dress and Dignity in the Mabinogion
7 Dressing for Success: How the Heroine's Clothing [Un]Makes the Man in Jean Renart's Roman de la Rose
8 Anomaly or Sole Survivor? The Impruneta Cushion and Early Italian "Patchwork"
9 Recent Books of Interest
10 Contents of Previous Volumes

Medieval Clothing and Textiles 9

Edited by Robin Netherton
Edited by Gale R. Owen-Crocker
Published: 18 Jul 2013
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Contents
1 Preface
2 Bridal Gifts in Medieval Bari
3 The Marriage of the Year [1028]
4 Clothing as Currency in Pre-Norman Ireland?
5 Cistercian Clothing and Its Production at Beaulieu Abbey, 1269-70
6 Clothing and Textile Materials in Medieval Sweden and Norway
7 The Iconography of Dagged Clothing and Its Reception by Moralist Writers
8 Domestic Painted Cloths in Sixteenth-Century England: Imagery, Placement, and Ownership
9 Recent Books of Interest
10 Contents of Previous Volumes

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