Material and Symbolic Gift-Giving: The Evidence of French and English Wills
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Document Type
Book Chapter
Description
Chapter in Medieval Fabrications - Dress, Textiles, Clothwork, and Other Cultural Imaginings.
The varied cultural functions of dress, textiles, and clothwork are used in this collection of essays to examine long-standing assumptions about the Middle Ages. At one end of the spectrum, questions of dress call up feminist theoretical investigations into the body and subjectivity, while broadening those inquiries to include theories of masculinity and queer identity as well. At the other extreme, the production and distribution of textiles carries us into the domain of economic history and the study of material commodities, trade and cultural patterns of exchange within western Europe and between east and west. Contributors to this volume represent a broad array of disciplines currently involved in rethinking medieval culture in terms of the material world.
ISBN
9781403961877
Publication Date
2004
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
City
London
Disciplines
English Language and Literature
Recommended Citation
Ashley, Kathleen. “Material and Symbolic Gift-Giving: The Evidence of French and English Wills” in Medieval Fabrications: Dress. Textiles, Clothwork and other Cultural Imaginings. Ed. E. Jane Burns (Palgrave, 2004), pp. 137-46, 233-36.
