Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 2009 39(3):459-481; DOI:10.1215/10829636-2009-001
Duke University Press
Cultures of Clothing in Later Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Margaret F. Rosenthal
University of Southern California Los Angeles, California
In the past two decades, the multifaceted discipline of the history of medieval and early modern dress has benefited from reconceptualizations of the long, late Middle Ages and Renaissance as having undergone a revolution of consciousness, belief, and thought with global implications that we still recognize today. A widening of the number and variety of crafts and industries, a proliferation and multiplication of skills and artisanal productivity that crossed regions, the ingenuity of pioneering ideas, and an unprecedented movement of goods, all had far-reaching influences on how merchants, diplomats, humanists, artists, mendicants, pilgrims, itinerant artisans, and laborers viewed their world and moved within it.

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