Brueghel's Heavy Dancers: Transgressive Clothing, Class, and Culture in the Late Middle Ages
- Author / Editor
- Friedman, John Block.
Brueghel's Heavy Dancers: Transgressive Clothing, Class, and Culture in the Late Middle Ages
- Published
- Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 2010.
- Physical Description
- xxv, 361 pp. : 21 b&w illus.
- Series
- Medieval Studies.
- Description
- Studies the iconography of nonaristocratic, nonclerical dress in late medieval literature and art. Considers aspects of dress as they distinguished peasants and gentry in the Old French pastourelle and its descendant, the bergerie, and follows this legacy into more sharply satiric German mock pastourelles and social satires, influenced by fabliaux. Examines "transgressive" details of dress and physiognomy in Chaucer's GP description of the Miller, Alisoun of MilT, Symkyn of RvT, and the Squire's Yeoman of GP, focusing on indications of class, social aspiration, and urban/rural opposition.
- Chaucer Subjects
- General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
- Miller and His Tale
- Reeve and His Tale