IMC 2003: Sessions

Session 215: Power Dressing

Sponsor:	DISTAFF: Discussion, Interpretation & Study of Textile Arts, Fabrics & Fashion
Organiser:	Gale R. Owen-Crocker, Department of English & American Studies, University of Manchester
Moderator/Chair:	Carol Neuman de Vegvar, Department of Fine Arts, Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware
Paper 215-a	The Dress and Prerogatives of the Clergy in Synodal Legislation 1215-1463 (Language: English) Thomas M. Izbicki, Eisenhower Library, Johns Hopkins University Index terms: Canon Law, Ecclesiastical History, Religious Life
Paper 215-b	Clothing and Status in Select 15th-Century English Wills (Language: English) Danielle Nunn-Weinberg, Department of English & American Studies, University of Manchester Index terms: Archives and Sources, Social History, Women's Studies
Paper 215-c	Dress and Authority in the Bayeux 'Tapestry' (Language: English) Gale R. Owen-Crocker, Department of English & American Studies, University of Manchester Index terms: Art History - General, Daily Life, Social History
Abstract	The session examines the representation and perception of authority through dress in ecclesiastical and secular texts and in graphic image.