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Costume historians and literary critics have sharpened understandings of dress as it constructs bodies and identities, but none has considered how representations of clothing in medieval literature respond to clerical discourses that sought to regulate contemporary aristocratic fashion. In 'Sartorial Strategies: Outfitting Aristocrats and Fashioning Conduct in Late Medieval Literature,' Nicole D. Smith establishes that writers of romances redirect the negative depictions of the courtly body found in clerical chronicles and penitential writings into positive images that convey virtue. Smith structures her book around two key moments in fashion history: the transformation of expensive attire by lacing, knotting, and belting in the twelfth century and by form-fitting tailoring in the fourteenth. She selects two literary texts in French from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries -- Marie de France's 'Guigemar' and Heldris of Cornuälle's 'Roman de Silence' -- and two in English from the fourteenth century -- 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight' and Chaucer's 'The Parson's Tale' -- for analysis in light of these changes in fashion. While religious and political documents decried the immoral

Author

Smith, Nicole D.

Publisher

University of Notre Dame Press, c2012.

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9780268041373

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Humanities