Contents

pp vii-viii

List of Illustrations

pp ix-xii

Preface

pp xiii-xiii

Contributors

pp xiv-xvi

Introduction

pp 1-4

Robin Netherton: A Life

pp 5-14

Part I - Re-imagining Garments

pp 15-16

1 - Precious Offerings: Dressing Devotional Statues in Medieval England

pp 17-28

2 - Dressing the Earth : Eleventh-century Garb in the Exultet Roll of Bari

pp 29-44

3 - Dress, Disguise, and Shape-Shifting in Nibelungenlied and Volsunga Saga

pp 45-58

4 - Survival, Recovery, Restoration, Re-creation: The Long Life of Medieval Garments

pp 59-74

5 - Coping with Connoisseurship : Issues in Attribution and Purpose Raised by an Indo-Portuguese “Vestment” in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

pp 75-92

Part II - Shifting Political and Spiritual Status

pp 93-94

6 - Refashioning St. Edward : Clothing and Text

pp 95-124

7 - “Dressed to Kill:” The Clothing of Christ’s Tormentors in an Illustrated Polish Devotional Manuscript

pp 125-156

8 - Treason and Clothing in Sixteenth-century England : The Case of Gregory “Sweetlips” Botolf

pp 157-172

Part III - Managing Gender and Social Class

pp 173-174

9 - The Lexicon of Apparel in the Pastourelle Corpus : Refashioning Shepherdesses

pp 175-192

10 - The Real Unreal: Chrétien de Troyes’s Fashioning of Erec and Enide

pp 193-210

11 - Regulating and Refashioning Dress: Sumptuary Legislation and its Enforcement in Fourteenth- and Early Fifteenth-century Lucca

pp 211-236

12 - Nuns’ Clothing and Ornaments in English and Northern French Ecclesiastical Regulations

pp 237-254

13 - Clothing Dependents: Dress of Children and Servants in the Petre Household, 1586–1587

pp 255-280

Index

pp 281-293

Tabula Gratulatoria

pp 294-294

Medieval and Renaissance Clothing and Textiles

pp 295-295