{"product_id":"courtly-love-undressed-reading-through-clothes-in-medieval-french-culture-paperback","title":"Courtly Love Undressed: Reading Through Clothes in Medieval French Culture - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eE. Jane Burns\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the later Middle Ages clothing was used to mark religious, military, and chivalric orders; in the courtly milieu, more specifically, the ostentatious display of luxury dress was used as a means of self-definition for the ruling elite. In \u003ci\u003eCourtly Love Undressed\u003c\/i\u003e, E. Jane Burns explores the representation of this material culture in the literary texts and other documents that imagine various functions for elite clothing in twelfth- and thirteenth-century France. \"Burns argues persuasively that fabric and clothing can create representations of both gender and status in selected French courtly texts. . . . While grounded in solid readings of medieval texts, Burns's book also reflects and adds to recent feminist rethinking of clothing's capacity to empower women.\"--\u003ci\u003eSpeculum\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eE. Jane Burns is L. M. Slifkin Distinguished Term Professor and Chair of the Curriculum in Women's Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She is author of Bodytalk: When Women Speak in Old French Literature, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 336\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.75 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 07, 2005\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42722606055487,"sku":"9780812219302","price":47.18,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/4372f2827c2d5cea5006b7f51e0ba1f0.webp?v=1765096319","url":"https:\/\/dhl-adrianne.myshopify.com\/products\/courtly-love-undressed-reading-through-clothes-in-medieval-french-culture-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}