About the Author
Elizabeth Coatsworth MSc Ph.D. ended her working career as Honorary Research Fellow in the Manchester Institute for Research and Innovation in Art and Design (MIRIAD), Manchester Metropolitan University. Earlier, she had worked as research assistant to Professor Rosemary Cramp in the Archaeology Department of Durham University. She has written on both Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture and other Anglo-Saxon arts. Her books include Vol. VIII Western Yorkshire in the series Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture. VIII. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008); The Art of the Anglo-Saxon Goldsmith (with Michael Pinder; Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2002); The Durham Gospels, Early English Manuscripts in Facsimile XX (with Christopher D. Verey, and T. Julian Brown; Copenhagen: Rosenkilde and Bagger, 1980). She has also written extensively on Medieval clothing and textiles: the surviving material, techniques of manufacture and decoration, and their use and appearance in Medieval Art: see for example Elizabeth Coatsworth and Gale R. Owen-Crocker, Clothing the Past. Surviving Garments from Early Medieval to Early Modern Western Europe (Leiden: Brill, 2018).
