Courtly Love Undressed: Reading Through Clothes in Medieval French Culture (Middle Ages Series) by E. Jane Burns
Courtly Love Undressed: Reading Through Clothes in Medieval French Culture (Middle Ages Series) by E. Jane Burns
English | June 2002 | ISBN: 0812236718 | 335 Pages | PDF | 1 MB
English | June 2002 | ISBN: 0812236718 | 335 Pages | PDF | 1 MB
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 Undressed, E. Jane Burns unfolds the rich display of costly garments worn by amorous partners in literary texts and other cultural documents in the French High Middle Ages.