Pan-European research on medieval clothing and textiles, drawing from a range of disciplines.This volume continues the series' tradition of bringing together work on clothing and textiles from across Europe. It has a strong focus on gold: subjects include sixth-century German burials containing sumptuous jewellery and bands brocaded with gold; the textual evidence for recycling such gold borders and bands in the later Anglo-Saxon period; and a semantic classification of words relating to gold in multi-lingual medieval Britain. It also rescues significant archaeological textiles from obscurity: there is a discussion of early medieval headdresses from The Netherlands, and an examination of a fifteenth-century Italian cushion, an early example of piecework. Finally, uses of dress and textiles in literature are explored in a survey of the Welsh Mabinogion and Jean Renart's Roman de la Rose. Robin Netherton is a professional editor and a researcher/lecturer on the interpretationof medieval European dress; Gale R. Owen-Crocker is Professor of Anglo-Saxon Culture at the University of Manchester. Contributors: Brigitte Haas-Gebhard, Britt Nowak-Böck, Maren Clegg Hyer, Louise Sylvester, ChrystelBrandenburgh, Lisa Evans, Patricia Williams, Katherine Talarico.

PrefaceThe Unterhaching Grave Finds: Richly Dressed Burials from Sixth-Century Bavaria - Brigitte Haas-Gebhard and Britt Nowak-BöckOld Finds Rediscovered: Two Early Medieval Headdresses from the National Museum of Antiquities, Leiden, the Netherlands - Chyrstel BrandenburghReduce, Reuse, Recycle: Imagined and Reimagined Textiles in Anglo-Saxon England - Maren Clegg HyerMining for Gold: Investigating a Semantic Classification in the Lexis of Cloth and Clothing Project - Louise SylvesterDress and Dignity in the Mabinogion - Patricia WilliamsDressing for Success: How the Heroine's Clothing [Un]Makes the Man in Jean Renart's Roman de la Rose - Kathryn Marie TalaricoAnomaly or Sole Survivor? The Impruneta Cushion and Early Italian "Patchwork" - Lisa EvansRecent Books of InterestContents of Previous Volumes