Books by Susan J. (Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies Vincent

Arguing that analysis needs to aspire to the proliferation and playfulness of fashion itself, this title includes chapters that explore a different aesthetic and examine its wider, and often surprising, implications. Assembling the anatomical parts, it places the contemporary body in the historical view.

Clothing occupies a complex and important position in relation to human experience. It gives form to society's ideas about the sacred and secular, about exclusion and inclusion, about age, beauty, sexuality and status. This title explores the meanings that garments held in early modern England.