The best new research on medieval clothing and textiles, drawing from a variety of angles and approaches.

The best new research on medieval clothing and textiles, drawing from a variety of angles and approaches.

The essays in this volume continue the Journal's tradition of groundbreaking interdisciplinary work. The volume opens with a survey of the discipline of medieval clothing and textiles, written by founding editor Gale R. Owen-Crocker. The range of the other essays extends chronologically from the early Middle Ages through the fifteenth century and covers a variety of disciplines. Topics include the conception of the author as a "wordweaver" in the literatures of Anglo-Saxon England; intertextual literary identities established through clothing in theNibelungenlied and theVölsunga Saga; the historical record of clothing and textiles at the court of King John of England; medallion silks, their use in Western Europe, and their representation in art; the vestments of Beguines and other penitential movements in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries; and a depiction of heraldic textile weaving inlate-medieval art.

Contributors: Tina Anderlini, Joanne W. Anderson, Maren Clegg Hyer, Alejandra Concha Sahli, Gale R. Owen-Crocker, Elizabeth M. Swedo, Hugh Thomas

Preface
Old Rags, New Responses: Medieval Dress and Textiles - Gale R. Owen-Crocker
Text/Textile: "Wordweaving" in the Literatures of Anglo-Saxon England - Maren Clegg Hyer
Unfolding Identities: The Intertextual Roles of Clothing in theNibelungenlied andVölsunga Saga - Elizabeth M. Swedo
Clothing and Textiles at the Court of King John of England, 1199-1216 - Hugh M Thomas
Dressing the Sacred: Medallion Silks and their Use in Western Medieval Europe - Tina Anderlini
Habit Envy: Extra-Religious Groups, Attire, and the Search for Legitimation Outside the Institutionalized Religious Orders - Alejandra Concha Sahli
The Loom, the Lady and her Family Chapels: Weaving Identity in Late Medieval Art - Joanne W. Anderson
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