The best new research on medieval clothing and textiles, drawing from a range of disciplines.
The essays collected here continue the Journal's wide-ranging and eclectic tradition. Topics include literary evidence for linen armour; serial production in late medieval silks; the inventory of Isabella Bruce's bridal goods; the depiction of women textile workers in the frescoes of the Salone of the Palazzo della Ragione in Padua, Italy; ideal female beauty in the Middle Ages and the means used to attain and assess it; and social status as evidenced by clothing and textiles in the Scottish royal treasurer's accounts of the mid-sixteenth century.
Cordelia Warr is Professor of Medieval and Renaissance Art at the University of Manchester, UK. She has published on a variety of topics including medieval and early-modern religious clothing in Italy, art in Naples, as well as miraculous wounds.