IMC 2014: Sessions
Session 1504: Talking about Textiles
Thursday 10 July 2014, 09.00-10.30
Sponsor: | DISTAFF: Discussion, Interpretation & Study of Textile Arts, Fabrics & Fashions |
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Organiser: | Gale R. Owen-Crocker, School of Arts, Languages & Cultures, University of Manchester |
Moderator/Chair: | Gale R. Owen-Crocker, School of Arts, Languages & Cultures, University of Manchester |
Paper 1504-a | Linteamenta altaria: The Care of Altar Linens in the Medieval Church (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Liturgy |
Paper 1504-b | Regional Variants of Clothing and Textile Terms in Late 6th-Century Ravenna Testaments: 'Usubandilos, bracile, braca, plicton, camisia, sareca, lena, sagello' - A Complete and Long-Lasting Medieval Dress Style (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Social History |
Paper 1504-c | Anthologising Medieval Dress and Textiles (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Comparative, Social History |
Abstract | All three papers deal with documenting dress and textiles. Izbicki considers law and visitation evidence for vestments, altar cloths, and other materials; Magoula discusses items from a list of bequests in a will registered in the Municipal Acts of Ravenna on 17 July 564; and Sylvester considers the choices made when compiling an multilingual anthology of references to medieval dress and textiles of the British Isles. |