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Costume and vestimentary device at the court of Philipp III of Burgundy from 1430 to 1455

2003

This study of vestimentary device at the court of burgundy from 1430 to 1455 leans on the systematic and computed analysis of the duke Philipp III of Burgundy's accounting. It turns towards five points : describing the terminology of costume and its written speech ; bringing nearer the vestimentary production and court activities, year by year, in relation with chroniclers accounts ; understanding the organisation of supplies based on humans reports (organisational chart, life of a garment, purveyors' tables) ; analysing rythms and levels of consummation, one by one, or in groups , with, in particular, a point about dress right at this time ; understanding the vestimentary personality of th…