A Cultural History of Dress and Fashion in the Renaissance

Elizabeth Currie is a freelance lecturer and author specialising in the history of fashion and textiles. She has formerly held the positions of Assistant Curator in Fashion, Textiles and Furniture at the V&A, Research Fellow and Tutor for History of Design MA at the Royal College of Art, UK.

List of Illustrations

Introduction
Elizabeth Currie (freelance lecturer and author specialising in the history of fashion and textiles, UK)

Chapter 1 – Textiles
Maria Hayward (University of Southampton, UK)

Chapter 2 – Production and Distribution
Susan Vincent (University of York, UK)

Chapter 3 – The Body
Isabelle Paresys (Université de Lille, France)

Chapter 4 – Belief
Cordelia Warr (University of Manchester, UK)

Chapter 5 – Gender and Sexuality
Ann Rosalind Jones (Smith College, USA)

Chapter 6 – Status
Catherine Richardson (University of Kent, UK)

Chapter 7 – Ethnicity
Eminegül Karababa (Middle East Technical University, Turkey)

Chapter 8 – Visual Representations
Anna Reynolds (Deputy Surveyor of Paintings, Royal Collection Trust, UK)

Chapter 9 – Literary Representations
Gerry Milligan (City University of New York, USA)

Notes
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index