IMC 2018: Sessions
Session 215: DISTAFF, II: French Dressing
Monday 2 July 2018, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | Discussion, Interpretation & Study of Textile Arts, Fabrics & Fashions (DISTAFF) |
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| Organiser: | Gale R. Owen-Crocker, Department of English & American Studies, University of Manchester |
| Moderator/Chair: | Elizabeth Coatsworth, now retired |
| Paper 215-a | The Mantle Is Not a Cloak: When, Where, and How Nobles Wore Mantles in Old French Literature (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - French or Occitan, Social History |
| Paper 215-b | Dressing to Deceive: Cross-Dressing and Identity in Old French Fabliaux (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - Painting, Canon Law, Language and Literature - French or Occitan |
| Paper 215-c | The Crusader's Return (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - Sculpture, Crusades |
| Abstract | The first paper examines the context, form, function, and prestige of the mantle in French Romance literature. The second focusses on medieval French cross-dressing literature with emphasis on the literature's interaction with canon law and visual depictions of cross-dressing in manuscript miniatures. Finally, a sculpture in the Musée Lorrain, Nancy, known as 'Le Retour du Croisé', is usually interpreted as a lady greeting her husband on his return from the 2nd Crusade, but close examination of her dress suggests that she, too, travelled to the Holy Land. |