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To celebrate the launch of a brand new volume from the Medieval Clothing and Textiles series, we have brought together a carefully curated collection of eBook chapters, encyclopedia entries, and digitised primary sources from across the Bloomsbury Medieval Studies platform, dedicated to this fascinating area of study.
Explore a carefully curated collection of free content with this vibrant Topic in Focus on the theme of Fashion across the medieval world.
Medieval Clothing and Textiles collection provides access to the entire catalogue of Boydell & Brewer's market leading series. The series draws from a range of interdisciplinary scholarship and features multiple examinations of specific clothing items - from wimples and tippets, to hoopskirts, capes and headdresses – as well as studies in the weaving, embroidering, and exporting of clothing and textiles around Medieval Europe. Popular subjects such as masculinity, the history of women, religious clothing, and the representation of clothing and textiles in literature, tapestries and arts are well covered. This rich collection has been updated with a brand new volume exploring topics such as linen armor, bridal goods, medieval silks and depictions of women textile workers.
➜ Click here to explore Volume 18 of the Medieval Clothing and Textiles series.
During the medieval period, people invested heavily in looking good. Drawing on a wealth of pictorial, textual and object sources, A Cultural History of Dress and Fashion in the Medieval Age examines how dress cultures developed – often to a degree of dazzling sophistication – between the years 800AD to 1450AD. Beautifully illustrated with 100 images, this unique reference work presents an overview of the period with essays on textiles, production and distribution, the body, belief, gender and sexuality, status, ethnicity, visual representations, and literary representations. This particular chapter explores how visual appearance lies at the basis of the expression of cultural identity.
➜ Click here to read more about the link between fashion and ethnicity.
Commissioned by Arc Humanities Press and exclusive to Bloomsbury Medieval Studies, the Encyclopedia of the Global Middle Ages takes an inclusive approach to the history of the middle ages. This pioneering collection provides readers with scholarly articles by global contributors and specialists in all things Medieval, to bring the medieval world alive. The vibrant series includes visual object studies of culturally significant items, such as this Epitrachelion – a Greek stole from the sixteenth century. Read an analysis of this fascinating item from dual perspectives, with this Case Study from the perspective of Iconography, and this Case Study from the perspective of Art History.
➜ Click here to read more articles from the Encyclopedia of the Global Middle Ages.
With over 200 color illustrations, Byzantine Silk on the Silk Roads takes us on a journey from the past to the present, too, where Byzantine story-telling and image-making is revisited, through color, imagery and pattern, in contemporary fashion collections. Exploring Byzantine culture through a contemporary filter, the book shows how the Byzantine era still influences textile and fashion designers today in their choices of materials and colors, and their utilization of images and patterns, acting as a unique source of inspiration to designers and creators in the 21st century. This chapter delves into the rich history of Islamic textiles, which were conspicuous symbols of power and wealth.
➜ Click here to discover more about this fascinating topic.
Bloomsbury Medieval Studies provides access to a rich collection of museum objects from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, including a wide range of images showcasing items of fashion and clothing from the across the Medieval Globe. This feathered tabard was made between the fifteenth and sixteenth century in Peru from cotton and feathers, knotted to create a lush surface. Vivid colors such as green, blue, yellow and orange, are used to create four zoomorphic creatures that resemble birds with anthropomorphic faces and lavish headdresses. Discover this exquisitely preserved piece in more detail, or explore one of the many other images from this rich collection.
➜ Click here to learn more about the feathered tabard.
