Professor Sarah-Grace Heller traces the history of a fashion period often overlooked - the early Middle Ages. With advances in archeology, a richer picture of the period has developed, with texts suggesting avid desires for bright colors, rich fabrics and splendid headgear.
Over coffee and cookies, Heller will discuss some of the challenges of analyzing and comparing the fragments remains found in furnishef burials, poetic texts, manuscript images, and crumbling wall paintings to better understand the deep roots of the modern fashion system.
Professor Sarah-Grace Heller (Ph.D. University of Minnesota) specializes in French and Occitan medieval literature. She has publishef a book, Fashion in Medieval France (Boydell & Brewer, 2007) and is currently working on an Illustrated Hisotry of Medieval Fashion.
Coffee, Cookies and Conversation is a new CLLC-sponsores series held in the Crane Cafe that invites the entire campus and public-at-large to engage in conversations with renowned Ohio State faculty from our foreign langauge departments.
