Chaucer And Clothing
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Chaucer And Clothing
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Author : Laura Fulkerson Hodges
language : en
Publisher: DS Brewer
Release Date : 2005
Chaucer And Clothing written by Laura Fulkerson Hodges and has been published by DS Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Art categories.
A detailed discussion of the meaning and significance of the terms used to describe the clothing of Chaucer's religious and academic pilgrims. Religious and academic dress in the middle ages functioned as a metaphorical signifier of spiritual and intellectual standards, implied a given social status, signalled the rejection or possession of garment wealth, and, in the details, suggested the wearer's spiritual state. This book presents the first sustained analysis of the characterizing dress worn by Chaucer's pilgrims who are in holy orders and/or affiliated with universities; the author uses approaches from a variety of disciplines [received criticism of late medieval literature, developments in political, economic and social history, the visual arts, and material culture] in order to present the complex ideas and rhetoric the pilgrims' dress expresses. She also makes the religious, intellectual, and material culture of Chaucer's day accessible to modern audiences through the reconstruction of the significance of fabrics, dyes, accessories, garments, and assembled costumes, and an explanation of technical details and specialist vocabularies for cloth-making, clothing, accessories, and their images in the visual arts.
Chaucer And Array
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Author : Laura Fulkerson Hodges
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Release Date : 2014
Chaucer And Array written by Laura Fulkerson Hodges and has been published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Design categories.
An analysis of the ways in which Chaucer uses details of costume, clothing and fabric, enhancing our understanding of and shedding fresh insights into his work. The use Chaucer made of costume rhetoric, and its function within his body of works, are examined here for the first time. The study explores Chaucer's knowledge of the conventional imagery of medieval literary genres, especiallymedieval romances and fabliaux, and his manipulation of rhetorical conventions through variations and omissions. In particular, it addresses Chaucer's habit of playing upon his audience's expectations, derived from their knowledge of the literary genres involved - and why he omits lengthy passages of costume rhetoric in his romances, but includes them in some of his comedic works, It also discusses the numerous minor facets of costume rhetoric employed in decorating his texts. Chaucer and Array responds to the questions posed by medievalists concerning Chaucer's characteristic pattern of apportioning descriptive detail in his characterization by costume. It alsoexamines his depiction of clothing and textiles representing contemporary material culture while focusing attention on the literary meaning of clothing and fabrics as well as on their historic, economic and religious signification. Laura F. Hodges blends her interests in medieval literature and the history of costume in her publications, specializing in the semiotics of costume and fabrics in literature. A teacher of English literature for a number of years, she holds a doctorate in literature from Rice University.
Clothing In Chaucer S Canterbury Tales
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Author : Sarah Koby
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Clothing In Chaucer S Canterbury Tales written by Sarah Koby and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Clothing and dress in literature categories.
Whose Clothes Are They Wearing Anyway
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Author : Rachel A. Ernst
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
Whose Clothes Are They Wearing Anyway written by Rachel A. Ernst and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with categories.
In the material culture of texts, clothing holds a particularly troubled position. A visual and tactile medium, clothing can be veiled by the words that make up texts even as garments play an integral role in defining and constructing characters' identities and physical bodies. Geoffrey Chaucer's The Clerk's Tale and Charles Dickens's Our Mutual Friend both utilize clothing to construct gendered characters through the clothes they wear. By placing these two disparate texts in conversation, I examine the exchange of clothing and how Chaucer and Dickens further this tradition within the father-daughter-husband triangle. Chaucer creates a traditional framework of patriarchal control through the undressing and re-dressing of Grisilde. Dickens expands this tradition by his use of clothing and the actions that surround it to trouble patriarchal authority in the guise of daughters and lovers, whose ability to undress, re-dress, and disguise themselves allows them to appropriate masculine roles of authority and provision. Through sartorial exchange, disguise, and accumulation, characters re-gender clothing in a shared sensibility between male and female, eliding masculine and feminine roles, and questioning the return to the domestic that characterizes both texts.
Clothing Culture 1350 1650
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Author : Catherine Richardson
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-03-02
Clothing Culture 1350 1650 written by Catherine Richardson and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-02 with History categories.
Addressing the subject of clothing in relation to such fundamental issues as national identity, social distinction, gender, the body, religion and politics, Clothing Culture, 1350-1650 provides a springboard into one of the most fascinating yet least understood aspects of social and cultural history. Nowhere in medieval and early modern European society was its hierarchical and social divisions more obviously reflected than in the sphere of clothing. Indeed, one of the few constant themes of writers, chroniclers, diarists and commentators from Chaucer to Pepys was the subject of fashion and clothes. Whether it was lauding the magnificence of court, warning against the vanity of fashion, describing the latest modes, or decrying the habit of the lower orders to ape the dress of their social superiors, people throughout history have been fascinated by the symbolism, power and messages that clothes can project. Yet despite this contemporary interest, clothing as a subject of historical enquiry has been a largely neglected field of academic study. Whilst it has been discussed in relation to various disciplines, it has not in many cases found a place as a central topic of analysis in its own right. The essays presented in this volume form part of a growing recent trend to put fashion and clothing back into the centre ground of historical research. From Russia to Rome, Ireland to France, this volume contains a wealth of examples of the numerous ways clothing was shaped by, and helped to shape, medieval and early modern European society. Furthermore, it demonstrates how the study of clothing can illuminate other facets of life and why it deserves to be treated as a central, rather than peripheral, facet of European history.
Chaucer And Costume
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Author : Laura Fulkerson Hodges
language : en
Publisher: D. S. Brewer
Release Date : 2000
Chaucer And Costume written by Laura Fulkerson Hodges and has been published by D. S. Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Literary Criticism categories.
Clothing and accessories in the middle ages functioned socially as status symbols, counted economically as portable wealth, and signified metaphorically the wearer's spiritual condition. Chaucer's costume descriptions suggest all of these connotations and more. This book presents the first sustained literary analysis of the meanings inherent in the costumes of Chaucer's secular pilgrims, illuminating the extent of their (non)conformity in their dress to fourteenth-century occupational, socio-political, and religious norms. The author discusses the significance of individual fabrics, dyes, accessories, garments, and assembled costumes, and explains technical details and specialist vocabularies for cloth-making, clothing, accessories and armor, drawing on a wealth of contemporary evidence including wills, household inventories, wardrobe accounts, manuscript illuminations and church decoration. LAURA F. HODGES has a doctorate from Rice University in medieval literature and an undergraduate degree in clothing and textiles from Auburn University; she has taught English literature for many years. As an independent scholar, she specialises in the semiotics of textiles and costume in literature.
Dress In The Poetry Of Geoffrey Chaucer
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Author : Marie Simmons Wilson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1944
Dress In The Poetry Of Geoffrey Chaucer written by Marie Simmons Wilson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1944 with categories.
The Pilgrims In Chaucer S Canterbury Tales
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Author : Eileen Norah Dean Cawood
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1976
The Pilgrims In Chaucer S Canterbury Tales written by Eileen Norah Dean Cawood and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1976 with categories.
The Performance Of Self
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Author : Susan Crane
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2012-10-09
The Performance Of Self written by Susan Crane and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-09 with Literary Criticism categories.
Medieval courtiers defined themselves in ceremonies and rituals. Tournaments, Maying, interludes, charivaris, and masking invited the English and French nobility to assert their identities in gesture and costume as well as in speech. These events presumed that performance makes a self, in contrast to the modern belief that identity precedes social performance and, indeed, that performance falsifies the true, inner self. Susan Crane resists the longstanding convictions that medieval rituals were trivial affairs, and that personal identity remained unarticulated until a later period. Focusing on England and France during the Hundred Years War, Crane draws on wardrobe accounts, manuscript illuminations, chronicles, archaeological evidence, and literature to recover the material as well as the verbal constructions of identity. She seeks intersections between theories of practice and performance that explain how appearances and language connect when courtiers dress as wild men to interrupt a wedding feast, when knights choose crests and badges to supplement their coats of arms, and when Joan of Arc cross-dresses for the court of inquisition after her capture.
Chaucer And Array
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Author : Laura F. Hodges
language : en
Publisher: D. S. Brewer
Release Date : 2014-03-20
Chaucer And Array written by Laura F. Hodges and has been published by D. S. Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-20 with Design categories.
The use Chaucer made of costume rhetoric, and its function within his works, are examined here for the first time. The study explores Chaucer's knowledge of the conventional imagery of medieval literary genres, especially medieval romances and fabliaux, and his manipulation of rhetorical conventions through variations and omissions. In particular, it addresses Chaucer's habit of playing upon his audience's expectations, derived from their knowledge of the literary genres involved - and why he omits lengthy passages of costume rhetoric in his romances, but includes them in some of his comedic works, It also discusses the numerous minor facets of costume rhetoric employed in decorating his texts.