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Robin Netherton Lecture Event

Robin Netherton

Robin Netherton is a researcher specializing in dress of the Middle Ages. Since 1982, she has given lectures and workshops on medieval clothing for academic audiences, historical societies, re-enactment groups, and other organizations, in such cities as Boston, Chicago, Denver, Orlando, Philadelphia, San Jose, and Seattle. An experienced costumer as well as an academic researcher, she addresses both the practical aspects of medieval clothing construction and the significance of costume in history, art, and literature. Her lectures emphasize approaches for researching medieval costume and ways to avoid common myths and mistakes.

Ms. Netherton is co-editor (with Gale Owen-Crocker) of the academic journal Medieval Clothing and Textiles, published by Boydell & Brewer. As founders of the study group DISTAFF, she and Dr. Owen-Crocker organize tracks of sessions on medieval dress and textiles each year at the International Congresses on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, Michigan, and Leeds, England.

Ms. Netherton's own research focuses on the development of the cut of Western European clothing in the 12th through 15th centuries, and also on the depiction and interpretation of clothing by artists and historians. Recent published papers have addressed the significance of the 14th-century gored dresses found at Herjolfsnes, Greenland (Medieval Clothing and Textiles, vol. 4, 2008); the 14th-century "tippet" sleeve decoration (Medieval Clothing and Textiles, vol. 1, 2005); and the development of the Norman hanging-cuff style (Costume Research Journal, Spring 2001; reprinted in Tournaments Illuminated, Winter 2002). She is now serving as assistant editor and contributor on post-Conquest dress for the upcoming Encyclopaedia of Medieval Dress and Textiles, to be published by Brill.

A native of St. Louis, Ms. Netherton studied journalism and medieval English literature at the University of Missouri and did graduate work in manuscript studies and book arts at Cornell University and the University of Iowa. To support her academic habit, she works as a freelance editor and writer.