The best new research on medieval clothing and textiles, drawing from a range of disciplines.
The essays collected here continue to showcase the Journal's wide-ranging and eclectic tradition. The topics addressed are a technical analysis of a fragment of the Bayeux Tapestry that was cut from the hanging and later restored; the inner workings of a fifteenth-century Lucchese cloth business; the luxurious textiles used and re-used for the Field of Cloth of Gold; the wardrobe of Kateryn Parr, Henry VIII's last queen, and how she manipulated clothing and textiles for political ends; Henry Stewart, Lord Darnley's use of sartorial strategies during his short reign as king of Scotland; and a detailed investigation of the textile known as the "Bacton Altar Cloth" that reconsiders its history and uses.
1. The Story of a Fragment from the Bayeux Tapestry: History, Technical
Analysis, and Restoration
Alexandra Lester-Makin and Clémentine Paquier-Berthelot
2. Francesco Berindelli and Sons, Cloth Dealers in Late-Medieval Lucca
Christine Meek
3. Profligacy and Practicality at the Field of Cloth of Gold (1520): A Closer
Look at the English Contingent
Lisa Monnas
4. "Fit for a Queen:" Kateryn Parr and the Politics of Textiles at the Tudor
Court, 1543-1548
Susan E. James
5. Darnley's Display: In Sartorial Pursuit of the Crown Matrimonial
Melanie Schuessler Bond
6. Unpicking the Bacton Embroidered Cloth: Stories of Re-use Preserved in a
Precious Elizabethan Textile
Challe Hudson
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MELANIE SCHUESSLER BOND is Professor Emerita, Eastern Michigan University. 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. Alexandra Lester-Makin is the Post-Doctoral Researcher for textiles on 'Unwrapping the Galloway Hoard', an Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded project jointly run by the National Museum of Scotland the University of Glasgow. MELANIE SCHUESSLER BOND is Professor Emerita, Eastern Michigan University.
