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Clothing the Past: Surviving Garments from Early Medieval to Early Modern Western Europe

By: Elizabeth Coatsworth,Gale Owen-Crocker

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Clothing the Past: Surviving Garments from Early Medieval to Early Modern Western Europe

By: Elizabeth Coatsworth,Gale Owen-Crocker

An astonishing number of medieval garments survive, more-or-less complete. Here the authors present 100 items, ranging from homely to princely. The book’s wide-ranging introduction discusses the circumstances in which garments have survived to the present; sets and collections; constructional and decorative techniques; iconography; inscriptions on garments; style and fashion. Detailed descriptions and discussions explain technique and ornament, investigate alleged associations with famous people (many of them spurious) and demonstrate, even when there are no known associations, how a garment may reveal its own biography: a story that can include repair, remaking, recycling; burial, resurrection and veneration; accidental loss or deliberate deposition. The authors both have many publications in the field of medieval studies, including previous collaborations on medieval textiles such as Medieval Textiles of the British Isles AD 450-1100: an Annotated Bibliography (2007), the Encyclopedia of Medieval Dress and Textiles of the British Isles (2012) and online bibliographies.

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BRILL

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9004352163

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9789004352162

The Four Funerals in Beowulf

And the Structure of the Poem

By: Gale R. Owen-Crocker

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The Four Funerals in Beowulf

And the Structure of the Poem

By: Gale R. Owen-Crocker

It is well known that the old English poem Beowulf begins and ends with funerals and includes the third as a digression part way through. Now, for the first time, a fourth funeral (hitherto disguised as poetic imagery) is identified from archaeological evidence. A detailed analysis of the four funerals establishes their thematic and structural importance, revealing them as pillars around which the poem is built. The poet is revealed as a literate antiquarian of considerable structural skill; one who explores feminist issues, plays with numbers and enjoys a pun; who establishes an ideal then probes its darker side.The author's unique knowledge of Anglo-Saxon culture provides constant surprises and enlightenment. This book will be invaluable to all students of the poem for its fresh and detailed reading, its identification of a coherent structure and its establishment of the integrity of the surviving texts.

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Manchester University Press

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0719054974

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9780719054976

The Bayeux Tapestry

Collected Papers

By: Gale R. Owen-Crocker

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The Bayeux Tapestry

Collected Papers

By: Gale R. Owen-Crocker

This collection of fifteen papers ranges from the author's initial interest in the Tapestry as a source of information on early medieval dress, through to her startling recognition of the embroidery's sophisticated narrative structure. Developing the work of previous authors who had identified graphic models for some of the images, she argues that not just the images themselves but the contexts from which they were drawn should be taken in to account in 'reading' the messages of the Tapestry. In further investigating the minds and hands behind this, the largest non-architectural artefact surviving from the Middle Ages, she ranges over the seams, the embroidery stitches, the language and artistry of the inscription, the potential significance of borders and the gestures of the figures in the main register, always scrutinising detail informatively. She identifies an over-riding conception and house style in the Tapestry, but also sees different hands at work in both needlecraft and graphics. Most intriguingly, she recognises an sub-contractor with a Roman source and a clownish wit. The author is Professor of Anglo-Saxon Culture at The University of Manchester, UK, a specialist in Old English poetry, Anglo-Saxon material culture and medieval dress and textiles.

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375

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Taylor & Francis

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1000942139

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9781000942132

Dress in Anglo-Saxon England

By: Gale R. Owen-Crocker

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Dress in Anglo-Saxon England

By: Gale R. Owen-Crocker

Splendid . . . the major overview of Anglo-Saxon clothing and textile from the 5th to 11th centuries. . . . Owen-Crocker has become the authority reconstructors call upon. . . . A wise and scholarly book. TOEBI Newsletter Based on the revised and expanded edition of 2004, this paperback is an encyclopaedic study of English dress from the fifth to the eleventh centuries, drawing evidence from archaeology, text and art (manuscripts, ivories, metalwork, stone sculpture, mosaics), and also from re-enactors' experience. It examines archaeological textiles, cloth production and the significance of imported cloth and foreign fashions. Dress is discussed as a marker of gender, ethnicity, status and social role - in the context of a pagan burial, dress for holy orders, bequests of clothing, commissioning a kingly wardrobe, and much else - and surviving dress fasteners and accessories are examined with regardto type and to geographical/chronological distribution. There are colour reconstructions of early Anglo-Saxon dress and a cutting pattern for a gown from the Bayeux tapestry; Old English garment names are discussed, and there isa glossary of costume and other relevant terms. GALE OWEN-CROCKER is Professor of Anglo-Saxon Culture at the University of Manchester. She has a special interest in dress throughout the medieval period - she advises ondress entries to the Toronto Old English Dictionary and has consulted for many museums and television companies. She is co-editor of the journal Medieval Clothing and Textiles.

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Boydell & Brewer

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184383572X

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Dress in Anglo-Saxon England

By: Gale R. Owen-Crocker

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The Four Funerals in Beowulf

And the Structure of the Poem

By: Gale R. Owen-Crocker

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Book's by Gale R. Owen-Crocker

Clothing the Past: Surviving Garments from Early Medieval to Early Modern Western Europe

Clothing the Past: Surviving Garments from Early Medieval to Early Modern Western Europe

The Four Funerals in Beowulf

The Four Funerals in Beowulf

The Bayeux Tapestry

The Bayeux Tapestry

Dress in Anglo-Saxon England

Dress in Anglo-Saxon England

Dress in Anglo-Saxon England

Dress in Anglo-Saxon England

The Four Funerals in Beowulf

The Four Funerals in Beowulf

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