IMC 2009: Sessions
Session 726: Copes and Cloaks
Tuesday 14 July 2009, 14.15-15.45
Sponsor: | DISTAFF: Discussion, Interpretation & Study of Textile Arts, Fabrics & Fashions |
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Organiser: | Gale R. Owen-Crocker, Department of English & American Studies, University of Manchester |
Moderator/Chair: | Gale R. Owen-Crocker, Department of English & American Studies, University of Manchester |
Paper 726-a | Having the Last Laugh: The Fabliau of the Red Cloak in Ivory (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - Sculpture, Language and Literature - French or Occitan |
Paper 726-b | Joseph's Coat of Many Descriptions: Description of Joseph's Tunic in Medieval Britain (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - French or Occitan, Language and Literature - Latin, Language and Literature - Old English |
Paper 726-c | Wandering Copes: The Exchange of Religious Vestments between England and Italy in the Middle Ages (Language: English) Index terms: Archives and Sources, Art History - Decorative Arts, Ecclesiastical History |
Abstract | The session examines medieval cloaks, fictional, and actual. The first examines a set of 14th-century ivory writing tablets and argues that the four scenes depict the fabliau of The Red Cloak. The second examines the vocabulary describing the biblical Joseph's garment. Gifts passing between England and medieval Apulia in southern Italy, in some cases still surviving, are the subject of the third paper and the fourth discussed the 'shaggy cloak' which was for a long time a part of Irish costume. |