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Women in uniform: dress and performance in medieval court culture

TRIGG, STEPHANIE (Routledge, 2014)

When women gather together to perform in such tournaments or take part as a group in other ritual performances associated with courtly culture, they raise intriguing questions about the late medieval understanding of femininity, feminine subjectivity, and feminine sexuality, especially when their identity is marked so decisively by heraldic or matching clothing. In this chapter I will explore some of the social meanings of this phenomenon.