Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction The Damsel's Sleeve: Reading Through Clothes in Courtly Love 1
4. PART I Clothing Courtly Bodies
5. 1 Fortune's Gown: Material Extravagance and the Opulence of Love 19
6. PART II Reconfiguring Desire: The Poetics of Touch
7. 2 Amorous Attire: Dressing Up for Love 59
8. 3 Love's Stitches Undone: Women's Work in the chanson de toile 88
9. PART III Denaturalizing Sex: Women and Men on a Gendered Sartorial Continuum
10. 4 Robes, Armor, and Skin 121
11. 5 From Woman s Nature to Nature's Dress 149
12. PART IV Expanding Courtly Space Through Eastern Riches
13. 6 Saracen Silk: Dolls, Idols, and Courtly Ladies 181
14. 7 Golden Spurs: Love in the Eastern World of Floire et Blancheflor 211
15. Coda: Marie de Champagne and the Matiere of Courtly Love 231
16. Notes 237
17. Bibliography 295
18. Index 319
19. Acknowledgments 325