Robin Netherton & Gale R. Owen-Crocker 
Medieval Clothing and Textiles 14 

The best new research on medieval clothing and textiles, drawing from a range of disciplines.


The essays here continue in the
Journal’s tradition of drawing on a range of disciplines. Topics include evidence for dress in multicultural sixth-century Ravenna; the incidence of Byzantine and Oriental silks in ninth- tothirteenth-century Denmark; a new analysis of the chronology of and contexts for the French hood; an examination of the mysterious garment called a
bliaut in French literature; a discussion of the vocabulary and loan wordsin Italian/Anglo-Norman mercantile transactions; and revelations that fashions in body hair were an important feature of women’s appearance.


Contributors: John Block Friedman, Anne Hedeager Krag, Karen Margrethe Høskuldsson, Olga Magoula, Megan Tiddeman, Monica L. Wright

Table of Content

Multicultural Clothing in Sixth-Century Ravenna – Olga Magoula

Byzantine and Oriental Silks in Denmark, 800-1200 – Anne Hedeager Krag

The
Bliaut: An Examination of the Evidence in French Literary Sources – Monica L. Wright

Eyebrows, Hairlines, and ‘Hairs Less in Sight’: Female Depilation in Late Medieval Europe – John Block Friedman

Lexical Exchange with Italian in the Textile and Wool Trades in the Thirteenth to Fifteenth Centuries – Megan Tiddeman

Hidden in Plain Black: The Secrets of the French Hood – Karen Margrethe Høskuldsson

Recent Books of Interest

About the author

Monica L. Wright is the Granger and Debaillon Professor of French and Medieval Studies at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA. Her research focuses on the use of clothing in medieval French literature.