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Courtly love undressed : reading through clothes in medieval French culture /
In the later Middle Ages clothing was used to mark religious, military, and chivalric orders; in the courtly milieu, more specifically, the ostentatious display of luxury dress was used as a means of self-definition for the ruling elite. In Courtly Love Undressed, E. Jane Burns explores the represen...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
©2002.
©2002 |
| Colección: | Middle Ages series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | In the later Middle Ages clothing was used to mark religious, military, and chivalric orders; in the courtly milieu, more specifically, the ostentatious display of luxury dress was used as a means of self-definition for the ruling elite. In Courtly Love Undressed, E. Jane Burns explores the representation of this material culture in the literary texts and other documents that imagine various functions for elite clothing in twelfth- and thirteenth-century France. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (326 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-317) and index. |
| ISBN: | 058543610X 9780585436104 9780812291247 0812291247 0812219309 9780812219302 |