Lexis of cloth and clothing: Medieval Royal Wardrobe accounts

本项目的总体目标是为在校学生、学生和感兴趣的公众提供一种方式，让他们接触到英国中世纪过去的一些方面、语言、手稿以及王室和贵族穿的衣服。具体地说，这项提议是为了提供一个有吸引力的和可访问的入口点，以获得约700-1450年英国布料和服装的Lexis项目的资源：起源、身份、背景和变化(Lexp)。这是一个为期五年的重大研究项目，于2006年得到AHRC的资助，用于一项跨学科研究，目的是以可搜索的数据库的形式收集中世纪不列颠群岛中使用的中世纪服装和纺织品的术语，并通过手稿艺术和雕像中的服装图像进行说明。LexP将通过一个网站提供一个新的进入LexP的入口，该网站将包括对爱德华一世统治时期皇家衣柜账户手稿的简要描述和摘要，爱德华二世和爱德华三世。这些文件记录了为制作服装(在英国制造或进口)和用这些纺织品制成的服装所购买的纺织品，以及成本和支付给裁缝、刺绣、纽扣制造商等的费用。摘要将伴随着账户中所有布料和服装单词的索引，有关这些单词的信息将通过LexP数据库的链接提供。还将有国家档案馆目录Discovery中布料和服装记录的链接。这个新项目的网站还将展示国家档案馆保存的手稿的图像，这样人们就可以看到笔迹，并对这些中世纪文件的外观有一种感觉。此外，该网站将包括一位艺术家对王室衣柜账户和王室图像中描述的服装的印象，以比较现代皇室成员在国家场合穿的衣服和中世纪穿的衣服。该项目的另一个目标是制作国家档案馆记录中的服装和纺织品指南。这一手稿宝库向公众免费开放，但同样需要一个切入点，以使手稿中包含的信息变得可用，并向这一遗产灌输一种主人翁意识。

SummaryThe overall aim of the present project is to offer a way for school-children, students and interested members of the public to engage with a number of facets of Britain's medieval past, its language, manuscripts, and the clothing worn by the royal family and nobility. Specifically, the proposal is to offer an attractive and accessible entry point to the resources of the project Lexis of Cloth and Clothing in Britain c. 700-1450: origins, identifications, context and change (LexP). This was a major five-year research project that received funding from the AHRC in 2006 for a trans-disciplinary study with the purpose of collecting together the terms for medieval dress and textiles in use in the British Isles across the Middle Ages in the form of a searchable database, illustrated by images of clothing from manuscript art and statues.A new entry point into the LexP will be provided through a website which will include brief descriptions and summaries of manuscripts of the Royal Wardrobe accounts for the reigns of Edward I, Edward II and Edward III. These are documents which record the textiles bought to make the clothing (manufactured in Britain or imported) and the garments that were made out of them, together with the costs and the payments to tailors, embroiderers, button-makers, etc. The summaries will be accompanied by an index to all words for cloth and clothing in the accounts and information about these words will be provided via links to the LexP database. There will also be links to records of cloth and clothing in Discovery, The National Archives' catalogue. The new project's website will also feature images of the manuscripts held in The National Archives so people can see the handwriting and gain a sense of the look of these medieval documents. In addition, the website will include an artist's impressions of the clothing described in the Royal Wardrobe accounts and images of the royal family, to compare the clothes worn by modern royals for state occasions with those worn in the Middle Ages.A further aim of the project is to produce a guide to the clothing and textiles in the records held at The National Archives. This treasure store of manuscripts is freely available to the public, but again, an entry point is needed to make the information contained in the manuscripts accessible and to instil a sense of ownership in this heritage.