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A Five-Minute Guide to Medieval Fabrics

Medievalists.net — Thu, 11 Jun 2015 16:43:46 +0000

I don’t know about you, but I often read descriptions of medieval clothing and want to know more about the fabric: what did it look like and what was its texture?

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Fashion Old and New: Weaving and Tailoring in the Early Medieval and Early Modern Period

Medievalists.net — Tue, 09 Jun 2015 12:34:41 +0000

Fashion fan? Interested in medieval and early modern textiles? Then this was your session. 2 papers from opposite ends of the spectrum: Early Medieval weaving and Early Modern Tailoring.

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Papers on Medieval Prosopography: Session #47 at KZOO 2015

Medievalists.net — Sat, 30 May 2015 00:49:56 +0000

Three fantastic papers on Prosopography from #KZOO2015.

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Sewing as Authority in the Middle Ages

Medievalists.net — Sun, 19 Apr 2015 05:52:17 +0000

Analysing manuscripts, relics, indulgences, and even a bishop’s mitre, the article argues that stitching was a way to enact, or intensify, the ritual purpose of objects, whether that was ceremonial, devotional, or authoritative.

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Move over Milan! Late Medieval and Renaissance Fashion in Venice

Medievalists.net — Sat, 03 Jan 2015 13:30:31 +0000

Milan may be Italy's current fashion capital, but Venice had an important role to play in the development of the Italian fashion and textile industry since the late middle ages and renaissance period.

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Of sagas and sheep: Toward a historical anthropology of social change and production for market, subsistence and tribute in early Iceland

Medievalists.net — Thu, 06 Nov 2014 12:50:13 +0000

This dissertation deals with the formation of chiefdoms, communities, ecclesiastical institutions and state, and with production for market, subsistence and tribute in early Iceland in the context of climatic change and ecological succession.

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Working women in thirteenth-century Paris

Medievalists.net — Tue, 04 Nov 2014 13:33:55 +0000

This thesis examines the role of women in the Parisian economy in the late thirteenth century.

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Women’s Devotional Bequests of Textiles in the Late Medieval English Parish Church, c.1350-1550

Medievalists.net — Mon, 18 Aug 2014 09:59:34 +0000

My investigation is set within the context of the current high level of interest in the workings of the late medieval parish.

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Time, space and power in later medieval Bristol

Medievalists.net — Mon, 26 May 2014 11:51:53 +0000

With a population of almost 10,000, Bristol was later medieval England’s second or third biggest urban place, and the realm’s second port after London. While not particularly large or wealthy in comparison with the great cities of northern Italy, Flanders or the Rhineland, it was a metropolis in the context of the British Isles.

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Women in early towns

Medievalists.net — Sat, 08 Mar 2014 20:08:42 +0000

What do we know about women's role in these societies? What did women do and how numerous were they? And did they pay the same role in Viking-Age proto-towns as in more developed medieval urban communities?

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