On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Elizabeth Young wrote:
> Robin Netherton wrote:
> > I know a scholar who has done two books so far on the significance of
> > the clothing descriptions on Chaucer's general prologue to the
> > Canterbury Tales, if you want a good set of examples of cues that the
> > medieval reader would have found significant.
>
> Would you have the citations handy for those works? Sounds fascinating!
Laura Hodges, _Chaucer and Costume_ and _Chaucer and Clothing_. I'd
suggest you get them via library or ILL rather than buying them sight
unseen; they're primarily lit-crit (or, as the description says, "the
semiotics of textile and costume in literature"), not costume histories
per se. The first one (which is out of print) is about the secular
pilgrims in the Tales, and the second (just released this year) is about
the religious pilgrims. Summaries here:
http://www.boydell.co.uk/59915778.HTM
http://www.boydell.co.uk/43840332.HTM
Laura and I had the same Chaucer professor (though at different
universities) in, hmm, the late 1970s for me, I think the 1980s for Laura.
We met through her at Kalamazoo and see each other there every year.
--Robin
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