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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786622703321

Autore

Burns E. Jane <1948->

Titolo

Courtly love undressed : reading through clothes in medieval French culture / / E. Jane Burns

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pennsylvania Press, , 2002

©2002

ISBN

0-8122-9124-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (335 p.)

Collana

Middle Ages Series

Disciplina

840.9/355

Soggetti

French literature - To 1500 - History and criticism

Clothing and dress in literature

Courtly love in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction The Damsel's Sleeve: Reading Through Clothes in Courtly Love -- PART I Clothing Courtly Bodies -- 1 Fortune's Gown: Material Extravagance and the Opulence of Love -- PART II Reconfiguring Desire: The Poetics of Touch -- 2 Amorous Attire: Dressing Up for Love -- 3 Love's Stitches Undone: Women's Work in the chanson de toile -- PART III Denaturalizing Sex: Women and Men on a Gendered Sartorial Continuum -- 4 Robes, Armor, and Skin -- 5 From Woman s Nature to Nature's Dress -- PART IV Expanding Courtly Space Through Eastern Riches -- 6 Saracen Silk: Dolls, Idols, and Courtly Ladies -- 7 Golden Spurs: Love in the Eastern World of Floire et Blancheflor -- Coda: Marie de Champagne and the Matiere of Courtly Love -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments

Sommario/riassunto

Clothing was used in the Middle Ages to mark religious, military, and chivalric orders, lepers, and prostitutes. The ostentatious display of luxury dress more specifically served as a means of self-definition for members of the ruling elite and the courtly lovers among them. In Courtly Love Undressed, E. Jane Burns unfolds the rich display of costly garments worn by amorous partners in literary texts and other cultural documents in the French High Middle Ages. Burns "reads through



clothes" in lyric, romance, and didactic literary works, vernacular sermons, and sumptuary laws to show how courtly attire is used to negotiate desire, sexuality, and symbolic space as well as social class. Reading through clothes reveals that the expression of female desire, so often effaced in courtly lyric and romance, can be registered in the poetic deployment of fabric and adornment, and that gender is often configured along a sartorial continuum, rather than in terms of naturally derived categories of woman and man. The symbolic identification of the court itself as a hybrid crossing place between Europe and the East also emerges through Burns's reading of literary allusions to the trade, travel, and pilgrimage that brought luxury cloth to France.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910770243703321

Autore

Ozenen Gurkan

Titolo

Architectural Interior Lighting / / by Gurkan Ozenen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2023

ISBN

9783031496950

3031496957

Edizione

[1st ed. 2023.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (120 pages)

Disciplina

720.47

696

Soggetti

Sustainable architecture

Interior architecture

Power electronics

Renewable energy sources

Sustainability

Sustainable Architecture/Green Buildings

Interior Architecture

Power Electronics

Renewable Energy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



Nota di contenuto

Terms Used in Lighting -- Illuminance -- Luminance -- Color Temperature -- Color Rendering Index (CRI) -- Spectral Power Distribution (SPD) -- Flicker -- Glare -- 2: Basic Principles of Lighting -- Lighting Design -- Energy Efficiency -- Sustainability -- Human Factors -- Lighting Controls -- Occupancy Sensors -- Daylight Sensors -- Dimmers -- Timeclocks -- Networked Control Systems -- Lighting Standards and Regulations -- Energy Codes -- Safety Codes -- Accessibility Codes -- Environmental Codes -- Performance Standards -- 3: Lighting Sources Used for Interior Design -- Artificial Lighting Sources -- Halogen Bulbs -- Fluorescent Tubes -- Compact Fluorescent Bulbs -- Light-emitting Diodes (LEDs) -- Use of Artificial Lighting Sources in Interior Design -- General Lighting -- Task Lighting -- Accent Lighting -- Decorative Lighting.

Sommario/riassunto

Architectural Interior Lighting is an essential guide to creating well-lit, visually appealing interior spaces. The book begins with an overview of light and color theory, lighting fundamentals, and design principles. It then covers artificial, natural, decorative, and professional lighting in interior design, as well as standards and regulations, controls and systems, sustainable lighting, energy efficiency, light pollution reduction, and the use of environmentally friendly materials. With a focus on practical applications and real-world examples, this book provides readers with the tools and knowledge necessary to achieve their design goals while considering the latest trends and techniques in the field. A valuable resource for professionals and students in architecture and lighting design, it will also appeal to anyone interested in creating visually stunning and functional interior spaces. Covers lighting fundamentals and advanced lighting design principles ; Includes clear explanations of technical terms and concepts and case studies of lighting design projects; Provides practical guidance on lighting sources, controls, and systems for sustainable lighting design.