Embroidered narratives

Lee, Christina

Abstract

This essay will argue for the importance of embroidered textiles as artifacts that provide a unique window to the participation of women in Early Medieval England in the political, socio-economic, and intellectual life of the period.² Textile gifts played a significant role in the creation of relations, but the study of textiles remains a specialized (and mostly gendered) area of research. This essay will consider the reason for such attitudes. While the surviving textile evidence pales in comparison to what remains of other sources, it is nevertheless a significant resource of female expression and agency.

• Acceptance Date: Apr 1, 2019
• Online Publication Date: Dec 13, 2022
• Publication Date: Feb 2, 2023
• Deposit Date: Mar 10, 2023
• Publicly Available Date: Mar 22, 2023
• Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
• Series Title: Knowledge Communities
• Series Number: 12
• Book Title: Feminist Approaches to Early Medieval English Studies
• Chapter Number: 2
• ISBN: 9789463721462
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.5117/9789463721462
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/2803671
• Publisher URL: https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789463721462/feminist-approaches-to-early-medieval-english-studies