Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vi
4. Tables viii
5. Contributors ix
6. Preface xi
7. 1 Old Rags, New Responses: Medieval Dress and Textiles 1
8. 2 Text/Textile: “Wordweaving” in the Literatures of Anglo-Saxon England 33
9. 3 Unfolding Identities: The Intertextual Roles of Clothing in the Nibelungenlied and Völsunga Saga 53
10. Clothing and Textiles at the Court of King John of England, 1199–1216 79
11. Dressing the Sacred: Medallion Silks and Their Use in Western Medieval Europe 101
12. Habit Envy: Extra-Religious Groups, Attire, and the Search for Legitimation Outside the Institutionalised Religious Orders 137
13. The Loom, the Lady, and Her Family Chapels: Weaving Identity in Late Medieval Art 157
14. Recent Books of Interest 183
15. Contents of Previous Volumes 197