{"product_id":"courtly-love-undressed-reading-through-clothes-in-medieval-french-culture-9780812219302","title":"Courtly Love Undressed: Reading Through Clothes in Medieval French Culture","description":"\u003cp\u003eClothing was used in the Middle Ages to mark religious, military, and chivalric orders, lepers, and prostitutes. The ostentatious display of luxury dress more specifically served as a means of self-definition for members of the ruling elite and the courtly lovers among them. In \u003ci\u003eCourtly Love Undressed\u003c\/i\u003e, E. Jane Burns unfolds the rich display of costly garments worn by amorous partners in literary texts and other cultural documents in the French High Middle Ages. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBurns \"reads through clothes\" in lyric, romance, and didactic literary works, vernacular sermons, and sumptuary laws to show how courtly attire is used to negotiate desire, sexuality, and symbolic space as well as social class. Reading through clothes reveals that the expression of female desire, so often effaced in courtly lyric and romance, can be registered in the poetic deployment of fabric and adornment, and that gender is often configured along a sartorial continuum, rather than in terms of naturally derived categories of woman and man. The symbolic identification of the court itself as a hybrid crossing place between Europe and the East also emerges through Burns's reading of literary allusions to the trade, travel, and pilgrimage that brought luxury cloth to France.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e E. Jane Burns\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Pennsylvania Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/07\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeries:\u003c\/b\u003e Middle Ages\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.09lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780812219302\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRevised Edition\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46020862640265,"sku":"9780812219302","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_e8dfe941-930a-4c12-a8ac-9508cd9e7001.jpg?v=1777408380","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/courtly-love-undressed-reading-through-clothes-in-medieval-french-culture-9780812219302","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}