FRENCH LANGUAGE
This book is a pioneering and brilliant study of the hennine, a great headdress so widespread in the collective imagination as the characteristic female clothing attribute of the late Middle Ages.
Alix Durantou went to the springs, those of the 15th century. It has gathered a corpus...
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FRENCH LANGUAGE
This book is a pioneering and brilliant study of the hennine, a great headdress so widespread in the collective imagination as the characteristic female clothing attribute of the late Middle Ages.
Alix Durantou went to the springs, those of the 15th century. It has gathered a corpus of texts from novels, chronicles, sermons by preachers and moralists, etc. and more than three hundred images, mainly illuminations and sculptures.
She used these documents to construct a reasoning that placed hennin at the heart of religious and social debates in the late Middle Ages.
176 pages / 368 illustrations
French language
Collection « Mémoires de recherche de l'École du Louvre »
Rmn-Grand Palais publishing
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