‘Go humbly dressed as befits servants of God’: Alcuin, clerical identity, and sartorial anxieties
Valerie L. Garver
Employing clothing as a means to investigate the letters of Alcuin (d. 804) reveals not only his great interest in dress subject for moral instruction but also ways which and textiles time shaped Alcuin's discussion attire. perceived garments both powerful tools dangers with material consequences, particularly Anglo‐Saxon correspondents. His epistolary corpus demonstrates sartorial tensions period that witnessed changes clerical dress, increased concern demarcate from lay, broader use silk England Carolingian Francia.
Early Medieval Europe