Medieval Broadcloth
«An important contribution.' -- Medieval Clothing and Textiles, vol 6 Medieval Clothing and Textiles, vol 6 Copious tables and illustrations throughout the book enhance its readability considerably, as do the contributor biographies that help to place the subject matter of each paper in its academic context. This is a fine book, one which clearly illustrates how archaeology can complement written sources and how those sources can enhance the archaeology.' -- Medieval Archaeology Medieval Archaeology haeology ...this volume would compliment the library of a textile subject expert both as an English language reference to Baltic regional research and as a directional map for developing future large-scale research projects of a truly interdisciplinary nature.' -- Archaeological Review from Cambridge Archaeological Review from Cambridge»
The eight papers presented here provide a useful introduction to medieval broadcloth, and an up-to-date synthesis of current research. The word broadcloth is nowadays used as an overall term for the woven textiles mass-produced and exported all over Europe. Les mer
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Oxbow Books
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9781842173817
- Utgivelsesår
- 2009
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«An important contribution.' -- Medieval Clothing and Textiles, vol 6 Medieval Clothing and Textiles, vol 6 Copious tables and illustrations throughout the book enhance its readability considerably, as do the contributor biographies that help to place the subject matter of each paper in its academic context. This is a fine book, one which clearly illustrates how archaeology can complement written sources and how those sources can enhance the archaeology.' -- Medieval Archaeology Medieval Archaeology haeology ...this volume would compliment the library of a textile subject expert both as an English language reference to Baltic regional research and as a directional map for developing future large-scale research projects of a truly interdisciplinary nature.' -- Archaeological Review from Cambridge Archaeological Review from Cambridge»