Courtly Love Undressed: Reading Through Clothes in Medieval French Culture by E. Jane Burns

Courtly Love Undressed: Reading Through Clothes in Medieval French Culture

E. Jane Burns

336 pages first pub 2002 (editions)

informative reflective slow-paced
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Clothing was used in the Middle Ages to mark religious, military, and chivalric orders, lepers, and prostitutes. The ostentatious display of luxury dress more specifically served as a means of self-definition for members of the ruling elite and th...

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