Medievalists.net » Sumptuary Laws http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Mon, 07 Dec 2015 05:01:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 The Fashion Police in 16th-century Italy http://www.medievalists.net/2014/10/02/fashion-police-16th-century-italy/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/10/02/fashion-police-16th-century-italy/#comments Fri, 03 Oct 2014 04:28:27 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=53010 Patrolling the streets and squares of the bustling city as arbiters of the level of ostentation that was deemed appropriate, the sumptuary magistrates were quite simply the Fashion Police.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/10/16/medieval-shoes/feed/ 0 Chaucer’s costume rhetoric in his portrait of the Prioress http://www.medievalists.net/2012/10/10/chaucers-costume-rhetoric-in-his-portrait-of-the-prioress/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/10/10/chaucers-costume-rhetoric-in-his-portrait-of-the-prioress/#comments Thu, 11 Oct 2012 01:06:31 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=36407 No critic has ever discussed costume signs in order to reveal to what extent the Prioress does or does not conform in her costume to the fourteenth century norm, with consideration given, simultaneously, to the historical records, literature and visual arts of the period that form and inform the signs from the many traditions Chaucer in corporates in his portrait of the Prioress.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/10/10/chaucers-costume-rhetoric-in-his-portrait-of-the-prioress/feed/ 0 ‘The inordinate excess in apparel’: Sumptuary Legislation in Tudor England http://www.medievalists.net/2012/04/29/the-inordinate-excess-in-apparel-sumptuary-legislation-in-tudor-england/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/04/29/the-inordinate-excess-in-apparel-sumptuary-legislation-in-tudor-england/#comments Sun, 29 Apr 2012 20:52:14 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=31386 Sumptuary legislation can be defined as a set of regulations, passed down by legislators through statutory law and parliamentary proclamations, that sought to regulate society by dictating what contemporaries could own or wear based on their position within society.

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