IMC 2011: Sessions
Session 320: Dress, Textiles, and Status
Monday 11 July 2011, 16.30-18.00
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: | Elizabeth Coatsworth, now retired |
Paper 320-a | The Queen's Gesture: A Rare Depiction of Tristan and Isolde on a Medieval Luxury Object (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - Sculpture, Language and Literature - French or Occitan |
Paper 320-b | Fine Fabrics and Coarse Clothes: Chrétien de Troyes's Subtle Weaving of Romance (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - French or Occitan, Social History |
Paper 320-c | Wearable Items as Gifts and Prizes in Froissart's Meliador (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - French or Occitan, Social History |
Abstract | This 4-paper session will include two papers on French Romance: one examining Chrétien's costume characterizations, both rich and poor, which underpin the thematic and structural complexities of his works; the other discussing Meliador's expansion of an idealised literary portrayal of a common courtly exchange of gifts and prizes by integrating economic and social dimensions. The other papers re-examine a scene on a French Gothic ivory, using costume and gesture to re-interpret the figures as Isolde and Tristan; and consider the wide geo-cultural chronologies of bliaut-type garments, drawing on extant Spanish 12-13th-century royal examples. |