.... a Cultures of Clothing in Later Medieval and Early Modern Europe Margaret F. Rosenthal University of Southern California Los Angeles, California In the past two decades...

...Elizabeth Currie This essay explores the practicalities of making and buying clothing in early modern Florence. Drawing on the household accounts of families associated with the Medici court, together with a range of other archival sources, the essay uncovers complex patterns of interaction between...

...Roze Hentschell © by Duke University Press 2002 Treasonous Textiles: Foreign Cloth and the Construction of Englishness Roze Hentschell...

..., Asia, Africa, and the New World—was challenged by a range of cultural transformations: changes in the style of clothing, the categories of people who wore particular fashions, the disappearance of fashions over time and through political changes, and the infringement of sumptuary laws. Vecellio...

... that guaranteed the authority of those very garments. This article investigates Durandus's delicate (and sometimes not so delicate) handling of these discrepancies with an eye toward the larger theoretical questions involved when material objects, and especially clothes, are used to convey material transcendence...

... influenced European perceptions of the voyages to the East. Secondly, the essays examine the impact that the visualizations for which the collection was so famous had on other texts of the period, specifically on how racial difference was registered in terms of skin color, clothing,and writing itself...

... on their customs and, in Vecellio's case, from an aesthetic focus on their clothing. In contrast, the De Brys' version of New Spain as presented in parts 3–5 of their America series launched a vivid, sensationalist assault on their readers' curiosity, playing to their fascination with the horrors of New World...

... Cultures of Clothing in Early Modern Europe Volume 39 / Number 3 / Fall 2009 Edited by Margaret F. Rosenthal Fashion in the early modern period referred to the act of making clothing, to its cut and shape, as well as to its power to enforce manners and cus- toms. Contrary to our contemporary view...

... for submission of manuscripts: March 1, 2008 Cultures of Clothing in Early Modern Europe Volume 39 / Number 3 / Fall 2009 Edited by Margaret F. Rosenthal Fashion in the early modern period referred to the act of making clothing, to its cut and shape, as well as to its power to enforce manners and cus...

... will be too broad to get in at that narrow gate without great repentance. (30)3 Cannon cleverly implies that the fantastic width of the various garments —  that is, individual items of clothing — that men and women of fashion wear, such as cartwheel ruffs, peascod-bellied doublets, French...

..., and they are found adorning all types of furnishings and clothing in the period, from gloves to wall hangings and bed curtains (see fig. 1). Slips were also used as readymade ornaments in the pictorial embroideries that became more common in the seventeenth century, as needleworkers mixed and matched motifs...

... the consumption of goods, consisting in the analy­sis, quantification, or prohibition of various demonstrations of opu- lence displayed during banquets, feasts, funerals, or in one’s attire. Sumptu- ary law most commonly focused on clothing in general, and my concern here is exclusively with the regulation...

... England; as Kalas points out, crystal glass mirrors were not made in England until 1624. They were therefore imported luxuries, hailing from an “incon- tinent” Venice and therefore suspect because of their foreign origin. Equally suspect because of their foreign origin, imported luxury cloths...

..., the cloth was opened up as the fabric-­structure was built out. Held at the corners, a finished piece of openweave may be raised upright. It falls as a square of marbled crepe, light and transparent (see fig. 1). The Estremaduran soldier Juan Ruiz de Arce could see as much. On 15 November 1532...

... the favour of a prince to endeavour to do so by offering him gifts of those things which they hold most precious, or in which they know him to take especial delight. In this way princes are presented with horses, arms, cloth of gold, gems, and such-like objects worthy...

... this very day” ( VP 26 [Syriac Nonnos complies, and helps Pelagia make a nocturnal escape from Antioch by giving her his clothing. Cross-dressed, she is now Pelagius, Miller / Hagiography and the Grotesque 421 and takes up a solitary life of extreme asceticism...

... the actor playing the title role to crawl. It does, however, require an extraordinary range of other movements. In the storm of the heath, Lear casts off his clothes (“off, off, you lendings And near the cliffs at Dover, in one of the strangest and least motivated moments in Shakespeare, he sits down...

... failure to capture his sacred likeness through artistic means compelled Christ himself to render it miraculously by pressing a small cloth or “mandylion” directly to his face, imprinting it with his “true image.” 1 This mandylion, perhaps Christianity's first acheiropoieton (“image not made by human...

... captions written in a contemporary hand.2 The illustrations reveal a keen attention to major changes in fashionable clothing, particular uses of fabrics and trims, and luxurious accessories such as feathered fans, hats with plumes, precious fabrics, and more. In addition, these albums exemplify...

... together to produce a unified allegory. Britton / Allegory and Difference 125 The racialized body, most notably marked as di fferent by skin color and clothing in early modern travel literature, presents problems for Ralegh’s allegory, problems that he...