Medieval Dress and Textiles in Britain Medieval Dress and Textiles in Britain A Multilingual Sourcebook Ed. Louise M Sylvester ; Mark C Chambers ; Gale R Owen-Crocker et al Boydell2014Hardback424pp Illustrated243x170mm 9781843839323 Product Code: 509156 Details Dress in the Middle Ages was an identifier of status, wealth, occupation, gender and ethnicity, and fashions in dress caused controversy and complaint... DetailsBackDetailsDress in the Middle Ages was an identifier of status, wealth, occupation, gender and ethnicity, and fashions in dress caused controversy and complaint: ‘Do not fashion your clothing in a new-fangled way’, wrote Robert Brunne in Handlyng Synne (1303). This volume of manuscript sources, transcribed and translated from Old and Middle English, Latin and Anglo-Norman French, illuminates these subjects through readings from wills, accounts, inventories, moral and satirical works, sumptuary regulations and epics and romances.Read MoreRead Less This item is due back in stock soon publ £60.00now £19.99 Qty Qty123 CategoriesHistoryMedieval HistoryTagsBritish & Irish historyMedieval historySociety & social sciences