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Textiles from the Museum of San Isidoro (León): New Evidence for Re-evaluating Their Chronology and Provenance

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posted on 2019-05-07, 09:13 authored by Ana Cabrera Lafuente
This paper presents the first in-depth analysis of the textiles held by the Museo de la Real Colegiata de San Isidoro de León, providing a careful investigation of textile
features and raw materials, in addition to carbon-14 dating and archival research. These new data have allowed us to redate the fabrics, placing them within their tenth-through
early thirteenth-century Mediterranean and European contexts. The result is a more complex image than was previously assumed, and it offers a significant starting
point for further research into the roles played by textiles in medieval Iberia.

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