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Cover 1 Title Page, Copyright 3 Contents 10 Illustrations 11 Acknowledgments 12 Abbreviations 15 Introduction 16 1. Fortune's Habits: Boethian Lessons on Clothing and Being 32 2. Fashioning Change: Wearing Fortune's Garments in High- and Late-Medieval England 65 3. The Case of the Bishop's Capa: Vestimentary Change and Divine Law in the Thirteenth Century 97 4. In Swich Richesse: Povre Griselda and the All-Consuming Archewyves 129 5. English Galaunts and the Aesthetic Event 163 Conclusion 198 Notes 202 Bibliography 246 Index 265 Other Works in the Series 272 Back Cover 274 Publisher:The Ohio State University Press,Published:2012,ISBN:9780814270257,Related ISBN:9780814211908,Language:English,OCLC:868219694 Medieval European culture was obsessed with clothing. In Fashioning Change: The Trope of Clothing in High-and Late-Medieval England, Andrea Denny-Brown explores the central impact of clothing in medieval ideas about impermanence and the ethical stakes of human transience. Studies of dress frequently contend with a prevailing cultural belief that bodily adornment speaks to interests that are frivolous, superficial, and cursory. Taking up the vexed topic of clothing’s inherent chang

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Author

Denny-Brown, Andrea

Publisher

The Ohio State University Press

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9780814211908

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction