| Contents |
Introduction / Catherine Richardson -- The cultural significance of costume books in sixteenth century Europe / Ulrike Ilg -- A question of nation : foreign clothes on the English subject / Roze Hentschell -- Tomb effigies and archaic dress in sixteenth century Ireland / Elizabeth Wincott Heckett -- The formation of Russian women's costume at the time before the reforms of Peter the Great / Oksana Sekatcheva -- Clothing courtesans : fabrics, signals, and experiences / Tessa Storey -- Clothing the naked in late medieval East Kent / Sheila Sweetinburgh -- Dress, nudity, and Calvinist culture in sixteenth century France / Graeme Murdock -- Social fabric in Thynne's Debate between pride and lowliness / Claire Bartram -- Clothing distributions and social relations c. 1350-1500 / Joanna Crawford -- Fashion, finance, foreign politics, and the wardrobe of Henry VIII / Maria Hayward -- Reworked material : discourses of clothing culture in early sixteenth century Greenwich / Elisabeth Salter -- 'This one poore blacke gowne lined with white' : the clothing of the sixteenth century English book / Helen smith -- 'Havying nothing upon hym saving onely his sherte' : event, narrative, and material culture in early modern England / Catherine Richardson -- Rips and slits : the torn garment and the medieval self / Andrea Denny-Brown -- Speaking to reveal : the body and acts of 'exposure' in early modern popular discourse / Elizabeth Hallam. |
