Encountering medieval textiles and dress : objects, texts, images / edited by Désirée G. Koslin and Janet E. Snyder.

Originally published: Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2002.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Appearance and ideology : creating distinctions between clerics and lay persons in early medieval Gaul / Bonnie Effros -- From self-sufficiency to commerce : structural and artifactual evidence for textile manufacture in Eastern England in the pre-conquest period / Nina Crummy -- Dressing the part : depictions of noble costume in Irish high crosses / Margaret McEnchroe Williams -- Marie de France's Bisclavret : what the werewolf will and will not wear / Gloria Thomas Gilmore -- From content to form : court clothing in mid-twelfth-century northern French sculpture / Jane Snyder -- Fashion in French crusade literature : desiring infidel textiles / Sarah-Grace Heller -- "Christ as a windblown sleeve" : The ambiguity of clothing as sign in Gottfried von Strassburg's Tristan / Margarita Yanson -- Addressing the law : costume as signifier in Medieval legal miniatures / Susan L'Engle -- From battlefield to court : the invention of fashion in the fourteenth century / Odile Blanc -- Unraveling the mystery of Jan van Eyck's cloths of honor : the Ghent Altarpiece / Donna M. Cottrell -- Marked difference : earrings and "the other" in fifteenth-century Flemish art / Penny Howell Jolly -- The Margaret Fitzgerald tomb effigy : a late medieval headdress and gown in St. Canice's cathedral, Kilkenny / Elizabeth Wincott Heckett -- "As proud as a dog in a doublet" : the importance of clothing in The shoemaker's holiday / Linda Anderson -- Value-added stuffs and shifts in meaning : an overview and case study of medieval textile paradigms / Dâesirâee Koslin.