Brueghel's heavy dancers : transgressive clothing, class, and culture in the late middle ages

Publication Data

• Title Brueghel's heavy dancers : transgressive clothing, class, and culture in the late middle ages
• Author John Block Friedman
• Publisher Syracuse University Press
• Publication date 2010
• Publication location Syracuse, N.Y.
• Language English

Contents

Burel and silk: the clothing of the shepherdess
"Selonc le bregerois usage": the genre of the bergerie
"Those hideous mountain girls"
"Hide the pecker": German mock pastourelles
"And for she was of town": Chaucer's Miller and Alison
"A sheef of pecok arwes, bright and kene": Chaucer's yeoman and the social context of archery
Clothing and German antipeasant satire.

Topics

• Poetry, Medieval :: History and criticism
• Clothing and dress :: History :: Medieval, 500-1500
• Decoration and ornament, Rustic :: Europe

Brueghel's heavy dancers : transgressive clothing, class, and culture in the late middle ages by John Block Friedman. ISBN 9780815632153. Published by Syracuse University Press in 2010. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.