Some of you may not be aware of the Lexis Project (see below).
For more information: http://lexisproject.arts.manchester.ac.uk/
The first publication is now available (see below for complete info):
Medieval Textiles of the British Isles AD
450-1100: An Annotated bibliography. by:
Elizabeth Coatsworth , Gale R. Owen-Crocker
Hope that this is of interest.
Beth
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http://www.arts.manchester.ac.uk/subjectareas/englishamericanstudies/academicstaff/galeowencrocker/
In 2006 Professor Owen-Crocker was awarded
£765,576 for a 5-year Research Project The lexis
of cloth and clothing in Britain c. 700-1450:
origins, identification, contexts and change by
the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
The Project will produce a database of
terminology from all the medieval languages of
the British Isles: Old and Middle English, Old
Irish, Welsh and other Celtic languages,
Anglo-Norse, Anglo-Norman and Anglo-Latin and
will be illustrated with maps, drawings and photographs.
Professor Owen-Crocker is Director of the Project
in association with Dr Cordelia Warr
[EMAIL PROTECTED] and Dr Louise
Sylvester [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The Project will employ two post doctoral
Research Assistants, one each at Manchester and
UCE BIrmingham, a part time Administrative
Assistant, and two part time technical staff. It
will fund consultancies on Old Irish and Old
Welsh and the services of an artist/cartographer.
In addition the AHRC is funding a PhD in Art
History associated with the Project.
The Project begins on 6 November 2006.
* The Birmingham-based Research Assistant is Dr Mark Chambers.
* The Manchester-based Administrative Assistant is Brian Schneider
* The PhD student is Pamela Walker
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BAR 445, 2007
Medieval Textiles of the British Isles AD 450-1100
An Annotated bibliography
by: Elizabeth Coatsworth , Gale R. Owen-Crocker
ISBN: 1407301357 9781407301358 , Price: £36.00 DBBC $90.00
xi+201 pages; 43 b/w plates and drawings, 13 colour plates.
The Manchester Medieval Textiles Project began in
1994, as a collaboration between Elizabeth
Coatsworth of Manchester Metropolitan University
and Gale Owen-Crocker of the University of
Manchester. Both had specialist interests in the
literary and material culture of the early
medieval period, and both were conscious of a gap
in general knowledge of an important and
all-pervasive part of that material culture,
through the relative inaccessibility of sources
of information regarding medieval textiles. The
Manchester Medieval Textiles Project developed
with two objectives, both attempting to bring the
basic materials of the subject to a wider
audience. The first is to establish a catalogue
of all medieval textiles in the British Isles.
This starts from the needs of a seeker after
specific textiles, or textile objects, who will
also be interested in the context of discovery,
and will be accompanied by a glossary of textile
terms relevant to the finds. The catalogue will
be published in due course on the internet, as a
searchable database, the most useful form for
those who want to devise their own, new, research
questions of this material. The second objective
was to produce this annotated bibliography of
publications relevant to these textiles. It is
intended to show the range of sources available
to the historian of material culture, who wishes
to consider the evidence from the surviving
textiles, and whether specific publications will
have the kind of information they seek. Both
parts of the Project should enable those
interested in this material to see what materials
comparative to their object of interest exist
throughout the British Isles and Ireland; and the
differences between cultural areas should also be
more readily apparent. With Glossary; Annotated
Bibliography of textiles of the British Isles c.
AD 450-1100; List of find sites and present
locations of textiles of the British Isles c. AD
450-1100; List of find sites of textile tools and
other evidence of textile manufacture from the
British Isles c. AD 450-1100 and comparative
evidence from Europe; List of garments attested
among textiles of the British Isles c. AD
450-1100; List of non-clothing textiles attested
from the British Isles c. AD 450-1100; List of
historical persons associated with textiles named in the text; General index.
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