Beth and Bob Matney wrote:
While I was browsing the British Library's Integrated Catalogue (using
the search terms "costume thesis"), I ran across the following of
interest. After several years of trying to interlibrary loan British
theses and dissertations from every library in the state (universities
and my local), I have given up and started to selectively purchase them
(usually not TOO expensive as microform.. except those from
Cambridge...). Has anyone seen these and can comment on them?
Scott, Margaret Cochrane.: Dress in Scotland 1406-1460.. University of
London, 1987.. DX189880
http://catalogue.bl.uk/F/HXYFJUV73M1YBTXDT15IGDKBHESDEDH7CY6VU7E4UMIND9ITX6-19633?func=full-set-set&set_number=075256&set_entry=000010&format=999
I saw pieces of this spread out on her living room floor in 1989! I'm
surprised the degree has such a late date on it, as this is the work
that got Margaret Scott the job of writing the 14th-15th c. volume of
the Visual History of Dress series in the mid-1980s. She studied at the
Courtauld, and IIRC almost no one there was doing work in the medieval
period at the time. I don't know if anyone else has ever done an
in-depth study of Scottish medieval dress. Among the little I recall,
she showed how Scotland got much of its influence from Flanders, as
England got its influence from France. I've noticed that bits and pieces
of this worked its way into her other writing over the years.
While not in the BL Catalogue, this is also of interest:
The development of Romanesque-Byzantine Elements in French and English
Dress 1050-1180 by Jennifer Harris. Univ. Manchester Ph.D Thesis (1977)
249 leaves : ill ; 30 cm
Note:Includes bibliography. Location: Joule Library Theses Th5157 OCLC:
62355641
also in King's College London - Courtauld Institute of Art Library ;
Theses K4708 HAR
Jennifer Harris is absolutely top-notch for 12th century, and one of the
few costume historians out there working in this era who has an eye for
practical clothing construction issues and not just literary and
rhetorical aspects. This should be good.
--Robin
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