IMC 2007: Sessions

Session 1006: Clothing, Law, and Art

Sponsor:	DISTAFF: Discussion, Interpretation & Study of Textile Arts, Fabrics & Fashions
Organiser:	Thomas M. Izbicki, Eisenhower Library, Johns Hopkins University
Moderator/Chair:	Gale R. Owen-Crocker, Department of English & American Studies, University of Manchester
Paper 1006-a	Dress for Festive Occasions and Mourning: Propriety and Strategies of Values in Early Medieval Frankish and Insular Law Codes (Language: English) Olga Magoula, Department of Medieval History, University of Birmingham Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Law, Mentalities, Social History
Paper 1006-b	Clerical Regulation of Women's Garb: The Legatine Constitution of Cardinal Latino Malabranca (Language: English) Thomas M. Izbicki, Eisenhower Library, Johns Hopkins University Index terms: Canon Law, Mentalities, Social History
Paper 1006-c	Sumptuous Objects in the Age of Sumptuary Laws: Fashion on Gothic Ivories (Language: English) Paula Carns, Modern Languages & Linguistics Library, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Index terms: Art History - General, Law, Mentalities
Abstract	Clothing, including its colour, cut and cost, was a considerable concern of medieval legislators. This session looks at both lay legislation and ecclesiastical enactments regulating dress. It will then look at how these efforts at regulation affected the depiction of clothing in art.