On Wed, 31 Jan 2007, Beth and Bob Matney wrote:
I am considering ordering a photocopy of
Romanesque-Byzantine Elements in French and English Dress 1050-1180 by
Jennifer Harris. Univ. Manchester Ph.D Thesis (1977)
Has anyone seen/read this Thesis?
I haven't seen the thesis and can't speak to it, but Jennifer Harris had
an excellent article on 12th-century clothing in a collection of essays
edited by my colleague Gale Owen-Crocker a few years ago.
(rustle, rustle) Here it is:
Jennifer Harris, Estroit vestu et menu cosu: Evidence for the
construction of twelfth-century dress, in _Medieval Art: R4ecent
Perspectives: A memorial tribute to C. R. Dodwell_, ed. Gale R.
Owen-Crocker and Timothy Graham (Manchester University Press, 1998).
ILL *that* book. You'll get a good idea of Harris's outlook from that, and
then you can decide whether to plunk down the bucks to get the thesis. (My
general feeling is that while I disagree with a few of her
interpretations, it is a well-researched article that brings together a
lot of hard-to-find evidence in a refreshingly coherent fashion.)
Based on the title of the thesis, I wonder if the article I mention above
wouldn't be much more in line with your interests anyway!
--Robin
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