Lou Taylor

Mourning Dress (Routledge Revivals)

A Costume and Social History

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Suitable for students of the history of dress and also to those who enjoys social history, this title chronicles the development of European and American mourning dress and etiquette since the middle ages, highlighting similarities and differences in practices between the different social strata.

Produktdetails

• Routledge Revivals
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 332
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 160mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9780415552868
• ISBN-10: 0415552869
• Artikelnr.: 26984823

Autorenporträt

Lou Taylor

Inhaltsangabe

1. The Function and Ritual of European Funerals 2. The Social Status of
Widows 3. The Origins of Fashionable Mourning Dress up to 1600 4. Mourning
Dress, 1600-1700 5. Mourning Dress, 1700-1800 6. Mourning Dress 1800-1910
7. Children and Mourning 8. The Mourning Dress and Textile Industries 9.
Mourning Jewellery 10. The Colours of Mourning 11. The Breakdown of
Mourning Traditions: Mourning Dress from 1910.