Dress in Anglo-Saxon EnglandIn this study of Anglo-Saxon dress, Gail Owen-Crocker synthesizes a wide range of evidence - archaeological, historical and artistic - to reconstruct the history of the age, tracing political and cultural change through its repercussions in the area of fashion. The study aims to show how the growth of a Christian, literate culture is reflected in the increased importance of written or illustrated material as indicators of dress styles. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Germanic tradition | 19 |
Womens costume in the fifth and sixth | 25 |
Mens costume in the fifth and sixth | 65 |
Womens costume from the seventh to the | 85 |
Mens costume from the seventh to the | 107 |
Womens costume in the tenth and | 131 |
Mens costume in the tenth and eleventh | 149 |
Textile production | 175 |
Appendix | 203 |
Abbreviations | 209 |
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Aldhelm Anglian Anglo-Saxon art Anglo-Saxon England appear archaeological band Bayeux Tapestry beads belt Beowulf Birka BL MS Cotton braid Bretwalda buckles burial Cambridgeshire Christian clasps cloak clothing Codford colour costume Cotton Claudius Cotton Tiberius Crowfoot decorated depicted Dodwell dress early eighth century elaborate embroidery England evidence example fabric fashion fastened female figures fillet Finglesham footwear Frankia Frankish Franks Casket Fuller Brooch garters Germanic girdle glosses gold gown grave-goods graves hair Hald Hawkes headdress Holywell Row hood jewellery Kent King late Anglo-Saxon Latin leather linen male metal neck Northumbrian Old English word ornament pagan perhaps pins Plate possibly probably rings Roman round Saxon sculptures secular seventh century shoes shoulder silk sixth centuries skeletons skirts sleeves sometimes stitched suggests surviving Sutton Hoo Tablet weaving tenth century textile threads trousers tunic twill undergarment veil Viking Age waist wear weaving Winchester woman women wore worn woven wrist