Book Announcement, Sartorial Politics in Early Modern Europe, edited by Erin Griffey
Title/Subtitle: Sartorial Politics in Early Modern Europe: Fashioning Women Volume editor: Erin Griffey, University of Auckland Publisher: Amsterdam University Press Series: Visual & Material Culture, 1300-1700 For women at the early modern courts, clothing and jewellery were essential elements in their political arsenal, enabling them to signal their dynastic value, to promote loyalty to their marital court and to advance political agendas. This is the first collection of essays to examine how elite women in early modern Europe marshalled clothing and jewellery for political ends. With essays encompassing women who traversed courts in Denmark, England, France, Germany, Habsburg Austria, Italy,…