Sumptuary laws and other fun things
Nov. 17th, 2011 04:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
frualeydisI am currently working on an article for an anthology; about Swedish sumptuary laws from the Middle Ages and up to the last one 1830 (or something like that). It is actually quite fun. I've felt for a long time that I never do anything that hasn't been done before in this project, but now I feel that I am. Of course they have been studied before, but generally either as sources for how people dressed or in a national economic context. I'm interested in what they say about the relations between clothes, gender and class. I also cover the whole period, which I don't think anyone has done before.
The article does not in any way deal with all these topics exhaustively, I draw up some broader lines and then I concentrate on two separate "case studies": Women's sexual moral in sumptuary laws and the intersection between gender and class in 18th century sumptuary laws. I actually think that I will be able to finish it and that it will be quite interesting when finished.
The other fun thing I'm referring to is looking through probate inventories from 1694, which I did on Tuesday. There is NO way I could do a comprehensive survey of clothing in those, there is just so much, but I'm going to have a look at sample years for at least the 17th century. First I have to write a little more on the article and then make a large sheet with little boxes saying things like "red glazed wool dress" so that I can go through the material in an organized way.
The article does not in any way deal with all these topics exhaustively, I draw up some broader lines and then I concentrate on two separate "case studies": Women's sexual moral in sumptuary laws and the intersection between gender and class in 18th century sumptuary laws. I actually think that I will be able to finish it and that it will be quite interesting when finished.
The other fun thing I'm referring to is looking through probate inventories from 1694, which I did on Tuesday. There is NO way I could do a comprehensive survey of clothing in those, there is just so much, but I'm going to have a look at sample years for at least the 17th century. First I have to write a little more on the article and then make a large sheet with little boxes saying things like "red glazed wool dress" so that I can go through the material in an organized way.
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