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Medieval Clothing and Textiles 6

Edited by Robin Netherton
Edited by Gale R. Owen-Crocker

Christine Sciacca, Stitches, Sutures, and Seams: "Embroidered" Parchment Repairs in Medieval Manuscripts, in: Journal, Medieval Clothing and Textiles 6, chapter 5, pp. 57-92.
  First Published: 15 Apr 2010, 13 Digit ISBN: 9781843835370
Pages: 174, Size: 25.6 x 15, Binding: Hardback, Imprint: Boydell Pres
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Contributors: Hilary Davidson, Ieva Pigozne, Valerie L. Garver, Christine Sciacca, Sarah L. Higley, William Sayers, Roger A. Ladd, Kate Kelsey Staples, Charlotte A. Stanford
 
 

Contents

  • 1  Preface
  • 2  Archaeological Dress and Textiles in Latvia from the Seventh to Thirteenth Centuries: Research, Results, and Reconstructions
  • 4  Weaving Words in Silk: Women and Inscribed Bands in the Carolingian World
  • 5  Stitches, Sutures, and Seams: "Embroidered" Parchment Repairs in Medieval Manuscripts
  • 6  Dressing Up the Nuns: The Lingua Ignota and Hildegard of Bingen's Clothing
  

  • 7  Flax and Linen in Walter of Bibbesworth's Thirteenth-Century French Treatise for English Housewives
  • 8  The London Mercers' Company, London Textual Culture, and John Gower's Mirour de l'Omme
  • 9  Fripperers and the Used Clothing Trade in Late Medieval London
  • 10  Donations from the Body for the Soul: Apparel, Devotion, and Status in Late Medieval Strasbourg
  • 11  Recent Books of Interest
 
  This sixth volume of Medieval Clothing and Textiles ranges widely, as ever, across England and Europe. It presents two groundbreaking articles in novel areas of textile and dress scholarship: an introduction to a previously unexamined class of embroidery (decorative manuscript repair), and an English-language overview of scholarly research on historical dress in Latvia.
Among the other topics considered in the volume are two very different listings of clothing items from medieval Germany: an invented lexicon by the mystic Hildegard of Bingen, and an accounting of specific real garmentsworn by ordinary people and donated to finance the building of Strasbourg Cathedral.

Papers also consider the mercantile world of clothing in medieval London: one gathers insight on dealers of secondhand clothing from the evidence of historical documents, while the other examines the social rise of the mercers in the light of their representation in literature, and their connections to the literary world. Further articles consider luxurious dress accessories with both worldly and spiritual significance, and analyse a French manual for English housewives, illuminating the often-overlooked topic of home linen production.

Contributors: Hilary Davidson, Ieva Pigozne, Valerie L. Garver, Christine Sciacca, Sarah L. Higley, William Sayers, Roger A. Ladd, Kate Kelsey Staples, Charlotte A. Stanford
 
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