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Author Burns, E. Jane, 1948-

Title Courtly love undressed : reading through clothes in medieval French culture / E. Jane Burns.

Imprint Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2002.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  840.9355 B937c 2002    ---  Available
Description 326 p. ; 24 cm.
Series The Middle Ages series
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-317) and index.
Contents Fortune's gown : material extravagance and the opulence of love -- Amorous attire : dressing up for love -- Love's stitches undone : women's work in the chanson de toile -- Robes, armor, and skin -- From woman's nature to nature's dress -- Saracen silk : dolls, idols, and courtly ladies -- Golden spurs : love in the eastern world of Floire et blancheflor.
Subject French literature -- To 1500 -- History and criticism.
Clothing and dress in literature.
Courtly love in literature.
ISBN 0812236718 (cloth : alk. paper)

 
    
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