IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 607: DISTAFF, I: Inside Out - Clothing as a Personality Revealer
Tuesday 7 July 2020, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Discussion, Interpretation & Study of Textile Arts, Fabrics & Fashion (DISTAFF) |
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| Organiser: | Tina Anderlini, Independent Scholar, Russange |
| Moderator/Chair: | Gale R. Owen-Crocker, Department of English & American Studies, University of Manchester |
| Paper 607-a | Chrétien's Chevalier au Lion and the Power of Clothing (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - French or Occitan, Mentalities, Social History |
| Paper 607-b | Hidden Faults?: Costumes and Clothing Accessories as Unveilers of Vices and Virtues (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Mentalities, Social History |
| Paper 607-c | Nudity, Modesty, and Clothing Defect in Robinet Testard's Art at the End of the 15th Century (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - Painting, Mentalities, Social History |
| Abstract | In this session we will attempt to define how medieval literature and art use costume and nudity to illuminate personality, how the inside and the outside are in fact closely connected in the medieval mentality. The first paper focuses on Chrétien's Yvain. We shall see how clothing has the power to alter fortunes and make the (wo)man.The second paper shows how specific elements of costume and accessories in art reveal morality by playing with fashion. The last paper studies Robinet Testard's work to define the connections between body, nudity, clothing, and social practices before 1500. |