IMC 2019: Sessions
Session 239: Resurrecting Lost Medieval Garments
Monday 1 July 2019, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | Discussion, Interpretation & Study of Textile Arts, Fabrics & Fashion (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 239-a | The Meaning and Role of Experiment in Reconstruction of Costume (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Folk Studies, Social History |
| Paper 239-b | How to Dress an Archbishop: The Sartorial Dilemma of St Edmund of Canterbury (d. 1240) (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Religious Life |
| Paper 239-c | Headdresses for Special Occasions? (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Religious Life, Social History, Women's Studies |
| Abstract | The first paper compares reconstructions of medieval Baltic dress with the available knowledge from graves, analysing the assumptions and possible prejudices which can influence reconstructions. The second discusses the ecclesiastical vestments of a 13th-century English archbishop who died in France and was buried in Pontigny: what they were, what remains, and how they got from their origins to France and beyond. The third brings together rich 13th- and 14th-century head ornaments, some elaborately embroidered, from convents and graves, questioning whether they had a special meaning. |