IMC 2021: Sessions
Session 2216: Inside Out: Clothing as a Social Revealer
Friday 9 July 2021, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | Discussion, Interpretation & Study of Textile Arts, Fabrics & Fashion (DISTAFF) |
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| Organiser: | Tina Anderlini, Independent Scholar, Russange |
| Moderator/Chair: | Monica L. Wright, Department of Modern Languages, University of Louisiana, Lafayette |
| Paper 2216-a | Hidden Faults?: Costumes and Clothing Accessories as Unveilers of Vices and Virtues (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Mentalities, Social History |
| Paper 2216-b | Nudity, Modesty, and Clothing Defects in Robinet Testard's Art at the End of the 15th Century (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - Painting, Mentalities, Social History |
| Paper 2216-c | The Devil Wears Crakows: The Crakow in Medieval English Discourses on Social and Religious Reform (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Middle English |
| Abstract | In this session we will attempt to define how medieval texts 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 third paper studies Robinet Testard's work to define the connections between body, nudity, clothing, and social practices before 1500. The last paper focuses on the reception of a well-known medieval fashion phenomenon, the Crakow, or Poulaine, a long-toed shoe, and its connection with courtly culture. |