Faculty
Andrea Denny-Brown , Professor (951) 8 Professor Denny-Brown’s current book project “Beyond the Fig Leaf: Sexuality, Consumption, and the Clothed Medieval Self” reexamines the subject of late medieval sartorial identity -- a topic crucial to late medieval cultural changes and the origins of modernity -- through the distinctive angle of the devalued material world. She focuses particular attention on the ways that the learned traditions of late antiquity shaped discussions of attire in the popular literary texts of late medieval England, from the ‘best seller’ commentaries of Nicholas Trevet and John Lathbury, to the vernacular poetry of Chaucer and Lydgate. Her research has been supported by the American Association of University Women (AAUW), the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, the North America Council on British Studies (NACBS), and the Huntington Library. |
