Medieval Clothing and Textiles offers the best new research in the field, drawing from a range of interdisciplinary scholarship. It brings together the entire catalogue of Boydell & Brewer's market leading Medieval Clothing and Textiles series, edited by Monica L. Wright, Robin Netherton, Gale R. Owen-Crocker, and Cordelia Warr. This rich, cross searchable collection is the only opportunity to purchase the entire series in a single online package.
Available via perpetual access or subscription to institutions worldwide.
Read in-depth studies covering a broad geographical scope and a range of periods, from the early Middle Ages to the Renaissance.
Explore multiple examinations of specific clothing items - from wimples and tippets, to hoopskirts, capes and headdresses – as well as studies in the weaving, embroidering, and exports.
Take an interdisciplinary approach; the collection features work from the fields of social and economic history, history of techniques and technology, art history, archaeology, literary and non-literary texts, and language, while also covering the experimental reconstruction of medieval techniques.
Explore popular subjects such as masculinity, the history of women, religious clothing, and the representation of clothing and textiles in literature, tapestries, and arts.
Discover what dress can tell us about the role of the individual within society – from nuns, courtiers, merchants, brides, warriors and more.
The collection is updated regularly with new, cutting-edge research to maintain a rigorous academic standard.