To browse Academia. T he New Middle Ages contributes to lIvely transdisClplInary conversations in medieval cultural stuches through Its scholarly monographs and essay collections.
This volume, the thirty-first in the series, continues a concern expressed In an earlIer series volume, Robes and Honor; edited by Stewart Gordon, with ways that material culture, in this case ceremonial dress, encodes but also ambiguates significant cultural symbolIcs. That volume invited us to think about robing as a "ceremonial metalanguage," but they also remind us that robes themselves as well as robing ceremonials have particular, local resonance.
In Encountering Medieval Textiles and Dress: Objects, Texts, Images, editors Desiree Koslin and Janet Synder have assembled a rich range of surviving examples of dreSSIng-across time, In dIfferent medIa, up and down the social ladder, across professions, and between genders-and the essays In this volume delineate the details while also interrogating the relatlOn of the represented to the "real. Focus on Alternative and Complementary Therapies, Log in with Facebook Log in with Google.
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Koshn and Janet E Snyder. CostumeSymbohc aspects. We are mdebted to Jonathan J. We also warmly wish to thank the curators and museum professionals at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Pierpont Morgan LIbrary who contmue to encourage our investIgations. We are grateful to the many fnends, colleagues, and acquamtances who lIstened and responded to questions and challenges wIth mterest and patience. We thank Dr. Laura Hodges for her generous and attentIve reading of the manuscript.
