Saw this on my way to look at the Spanish Medieval book Janet
recommended...thought some of you might be interested.
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Item Number: 47054
*Title: Fashion and Fiction: Dress in Art and Literature in Stuart England*
Author: RIBEIRO, AILEEN
*Price: $65.00*
ISBN: 0300109997
Description: New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2006. 29cm.,
cloth, 387pp., 224 illus., ca. 80 in color. (Focusing on the rich visual
culture of the seventeenth century, including portraits, engravings,
fashion plates, and sculpture, and on literary sources—poetry, drama,
essays, sermons—the distinguished historian of dress Aileen Ribeiro
creates a fascinating account of Stuart dress and how it both reflected
and influenced society. Supported by a wealth of illustrative images,
she explores such varied themes as court costumes, the masque, the ways
in which political and religious ideologies could be expressed in dress,
and the importance of London as a fashion center. This beautiful book is
an indispensable and authoritative account of what people wore and how
it related to Stuart England’s cultural climate).
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