This is the first collection of essays to examine how elite women in early modern Europe marshalled clothing and jewellery for political ends.

This is the first global history of dress regulation and its place in broader debates around how human life and societies should be visualised and materialised.

The first comprehensive study on the role of Italian fashion and Italian literature, this book analyzes clothing and fashion as described and represented in lit

Through a thematic overview of court culture that connects the cultural with the political, confessional, spatial, material and performative, this volume introd

Throughout history, fashion has emerged as one of the most powerful driving forces determining the political, economic and social ramifications of the productio