Courtly Love Undressed : : Reading Through Clothes in Medieval French Culture / / E. Jane Burns.
Clothing was used in the Middle Ages to mark religious, military, and chivalric orders, lepers, and prostitutes. The ostentatious display of luxury dress more specifically served as a means of self-definition for members of the ruling elite and the courtly lovers among them. In Courtly Love Undresse...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2014] ©2002 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Middle Ages Series
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (336 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction The Damsel's Sleeve: Reading Through Clothes in Courtly Love
- PART I Clothing Courtly Bodies
- 1 Fortune's Gown: Material Extravagance and the Opulence of Love
- PART II Reconfiguring Desire: The Poetics of Touch
- 2 Amorous Attire: Dressing Up for Love
- 3 Love's Stitches Undone: Women's Work in the chanson de toile
- PART III Denaturalizing Sex: Women and Men on a Gendered Sartorial Continuum
- 4 Robes, Armor, and Skin
- 5 From Woman s Nature to Nature's Dress
- PART IV Expanding Courtly Space Through Eastern Riches
- 6 Saracen Silk: Dolls, Idols, and Courtly Ladies
- 7 Golden Spurs: Love in the Eastern World of Floire et Blancheflor
- Coda: Marie de Champagne and the Matiere of Courtly Love
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments