Sarah A Bendall
Biographic Data
| ID | 1626413 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarah A Bendall |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarah A |
| FAMILY NAME | Bendall |
| SIGNATURE | BENDALL S A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian Catholic University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6078-4244 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Selling India goods: East Indies trade and the rise of female makers and retailers in seventeenth and eighteenth-century England
In late seventeenth-century Europe, textiles, porcelain, lacquerware and other ‘India goods’ abounded. While a large body of scholarship on the East India trade exists, the important role of women as merchants, makers and retailers has yet to be fully examined. This article contributes to scholarship on women’s retail businesses, the later seventeenth-century fashion system, and the consumption of Asian wares in Europe. Using a wide range of arch…
Co‐Development and Validation of a Patient‐Reported Experience Measure for Trans and Gender Diverse Young People: A Multi‐Stage Participatory Study Protocol
BACKGROUND: Trans and gender diverse (trans) young people experience higher rates of physical and mental ill-health due to chronic exposure to gender minority stress. Consequently, trans young people report higher health and mental healthcare service utilisation. Disconcertingly, negative experiences of healthcare services are prevalent among trans young people, especially those with additional marginalised identities and backgrounds who experien…
Queen Anne's Wardrobe: Fashion, Sartorial Politics, and the Representational Strategies of the Last Stuart Queen
The final Stuart monarch, Queen Anne, has often been overlooked in studies of visual and material culture, particularly of fashion and dress. This article is the first to undertake a qualitative and quantitative analysis of the wardrobe accounts of Queen Anne, situating her consumption within the context of the eighteenth‐century fashion marketplace and her representational strategies. Doing so reveals the queen to be a more complex and active pa…
A conceptual review of phenomenological links between trauma and the content of psychotic symptoms
Meaningful relationships between trauma and psychotic symptom content can be identified. However, there is a need for novel methodologies including qualitative research designs and greater rigor when examining content relationships. Further, additional posttraumatic sequelae such as hyperarousal and dissociation may impact the content of psychotic symptoms and should be a focus of future investigation. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all …
Susan North, Sweet & Clean? Bodies and Clothes in Early Modern England
The queens' dressmakers: Women's work and the clothing trades in late seventeenth-century London
Increased patterns of consumption during the late seventeenth century afforded new opportunities in the fashion trades for women, establishing mantua-making as an enduring form of female employment. The rise of these women has not been well documented in England or outside of the guilds, organisations that traditionally sought to marginalise the place of women in the craft trades. This article utilises verb and noun methodologies, alongside quali…
Female Personifications and Masculine Forms: Gender, Armour and Allegory in the Habsburg–Valois Conflicts of Sixteenth‐Century Europe
This article examines the visual and material culture of sixteenth‐century elite ceremonial armours and the paradoxes inherent in using images of women to decorate them between 1525 and 1550. It argues that foreign invading forces and their allies exploited or inverted traditional gender binaries associated with the classical and humanist iconography of the Italian Renaissance, particularly its female allegorical forms, to visually signify power …
Women’s Dress and the Demise of the Tailoring Monopoly: Farthingale-Makers, Body-Makers and the Changing Textile Marketplace of Seventeenth-Century London
By 1700 tailors no longer dominated England’s garment marketplace, as stay-makers, mantua-makers and seamstresses now produced key items of female dress. The demise of the tailoring monopoly was a complex process involving many factors. This article examines an aspect of this transition that has been previously overlooked in histories of garment production: farthingale-makers and body-makers. These trades emerged at the start of the seventeenth c…
Adorning Masculinities? The Commissioning and Wearing of Hat Badges during the Habsburg-Valois Italian Wars
The Case of the “French Vardinggale”: A Methodological Approach to Reconstructing and Understanding Ephemeral Garments
This article showcases experimental dress reconstruction as a valuable research tool for the historian. It presents a case study detailing how two underskirts of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, French Farthingale Rolls and French Wheel Farthingales, were reconstructed using historical techniques and experimental methodologies. The first section outlines my methodological approach to reconstructing these ephemeral garments, exploiting arc…
Take measure of your wide and flaunting garments’: The farthingale, gender and the consumption of space in Elizabethan and Jacobean England
Farthingales were large stiffened structures placed beneath a woman’s skirts in order to push them out and enlarge the lower half of the body. During the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods in England criticisms of these garments increasingly focused on their spatial ramifications, decrying their monstrous size and inconvenience. Nonetheless farthingales served important social and cultural functions for women in early modern England, shaping and de…
To Write a Distick upon It: Busks and the Language of Courtship and Sexual Desire in Sixteenth‐ and Seventeenth‐Century England
The public life of maps: New social histories of maps and their makers
Rockingham Forest: An Atlas of the Medieval and Early-modern Landscape
Draft Maps of Galway and Coventry for John Speed's Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine
In 2002, Sarah Bendall published an article in Imago Mundi about a collection of manuscript maps in the library of Merton College, Oxford, which she identified as consisting of draft town maps for
Draft town maps for John speed's theatre of the empire of great Britaine
A collection of hand‐drawn maps, catalogued as a ‘Volume of hand‐drawn town plans ?1605–1608’, has been rediscovered in the library of Merton College, Oxford. An analysis of the physical characteristics of the volume, its maps and their draftsmanship, together with external evidence of authorship, suggest that it is by John Speed. It is argued here that the plans were probably drafts for the maps eventually published in the Theatre of the Empire …
Enquire ‘when the same Platte was made and by Whome and to what intent’: Sixteenth‐century maps of Romney marsh
The making of local maps in Britain developed significantly during the reign of Henry VIII. Before the 1530s, only written descriptions were produced and few people had the skills necessary to make or use maps. This case study of maps of Romney Marsh reviews the dates when local maps were made, those who made the maps, and the reasons why the maps were made. The paper also demonstrates how maps must be examined in relation to their contemporary c…
Interpreting Maps of the Rural Landscape: An Example from Late Sixteenth-Century Buckinghamshire
To deconstruct a map, said Brian Harley, it is necessary to read between the lines and to place the cartographic facts within a specific cultural perspective. He used the ideas of literary critics to make historians of cartography aware that there is more to maps than initially meets the eye and that ‘facts’ are rarely what they first appear to be. By viewing a map as a product of a particular society, one can begin to understand why a map was ma…
To Write a Distick upon It: Busks and the Language of Courtship and Sexual Desire in Sixteenth‐ and Seventeenth‐Century England
The Case of the “French Vardinggale”: A Methodological Approach to Reconstructing and Understanding Ephemeral Garments
This article showcases experimental dress reconstruction as a valuable research tool for the historian. It presents a case study detailing how two underskirts of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, French Farthingale Rolls and French Wheel Farthingales, were reconstructed using historical techniques and experimental methodologies. The first section outlines my methodological approach to reconstructing these ephemeral garments, exploiting arc…
Enquire ‘when the same Platte was made and by Whome and to what intent’: Sixteenth‐century maps of Romney marsh
The making of local maps in Britain developed significantly during the reign of Henry VIII. Before the 1530s, only written descriptions were produced and few people had the skills necessary to make or use maps. This case study of maps of Romney Marsh reviews the dates when local maps were made, those who made the maps, and the reasons why the maps were made. The paper also demonstrates how maps must be examined in relation to their contemporary c…
Interpreting Maps of the Rural Landscape: An Example from Late Sixteenth-Century Buckinghamshire
To deconstruct a map, said Brian Harley, it is necessary to read between the lines and to place the cartographic facts within a specific cultural perspective. He used the ideas of literary critics to make historians of cartography aware that there is more to maps than initially meets the eye and that ‘facts’ are rarely what they first appear to be. By viewing a map as a product of a particular society, one can begin to understand why a map was ma…
Interpreting Maps of the Rural Landscape: An Example from Late Sixteenth-Century Buckinghamshire
To deconstruct a map, said Brian Harley, it is necessary to read between the lines and to place the cartographic facts within a specific cultural perspective. He used the ideas of literary critics to make historians of cartography aware that there is more to maps than initially meets the eye and that ‘facts’ are rarely what they first appear to be. By viewing a map as a product of a particular society, one can begin to understand why a map was ma…
Enquire ‘when the same Platte was made and by Whome and to what intent’: Sixteenth‐century maps of Romney marsh
The making of local maps in Britain developed significantly during the reign of Henry VIII. Before the 1530s, only written descriptions were produced and few people had the skills necessary to make or use maps. This case study of maps of Romney Marsh reviews the dates when local maps were made, those who made the maps, and the reasons why the maps were made. The paper also demonstrates how maps must be examined in relation to their contemporary c…
Draft town maps for John speed's theatre of the empire of great Britaine
A collection of hand‐drawn maps, catalogued as a ‘Volume of hand‐drawn town plans ?1605–1608’, has been rediscovered in the library of Merton College, Oxford. An analysis of the physical characteristics of the volume, its maps and their draftsmanship, together with external evidence of authorship, suggest that it is by John Speed. It is argued here that the plans were probably drafts for the maps eventually published in the Theatre of the Empire …
Draft Maps of Galway and Coventry for John Speed's Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine
In 2002, Sarah Bendall published an article in Imago Mundi about a collection of manuscript maps in the library of Merton College, Oxford, which she identified as consisting of draft town maps for
Rockingham Forest: An Atlas of the Medieval and Early-modern Landscape
The public life of maps: New social histories of maps and their makers
To Write a Distick upon It: Busks and the Language of Courtship and Sexual Desire in Sixteenth‐ and Seventeenth‐Century England
The Case of the “French Vardinggale”: A Methodological Approach to Reconstructing and Understanding Ephemeral Garments
This article showcases experimental dress reconstruction as a valuable research tool for the historian. It presents a case study detailing how two underskirts of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, French Farthingale Rolls and French Wheel Farthingales, were reconstructed using historical techniques and experimental methodologies. The first section outlines my methodological approach to reconstructing these ephemeral garments, exploiting arc…
Take measure of your wide and flaunting garments’: The farthingale, gender and the consumption of space in Elizabethan and Jacobean England
Farthingales were large stiffened structures placed beneath a woman’s skirts in order to push them out and enlarge the lower half of the body. During the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods in England criticisms of these garments increasingly focused on their spatial ramifications, decrying their monstrous size and inconvenience. Nonetheless farthingales served important social and cultural functions for women in early modern England, shaping and de…
Women’s Dress and the Demise of the Tailoring Monopoly: Farthingale-Makers, Body-Makers and the Changing Textile Marketplace of Seventeenth-Century London
By 1700 tailors no longer dominated England’s garment marketplace, as stay-makers, mantua-makers and seamstresses now produced key items of female dress. The demise of the tailoring monopoly was a complex process involving many factors. This article examines an aspect of this transition that has been previously overlooked in histories of garment production: farthingale-makers and body-makers. These trades emerged at the start of the seventeenth c…
Adorning Masculinities? The Commissioning and Wearing of Hat Badges during the Habsburg-Valois Italian Wars
Female Personifications and Masculine Forms: Gender, Armour and Allegory in the Habsburg–Valois Conflicts of Sixteenth‐Century Europe
This article examines the visual and material culture of sixteenth‐century elite ceremonial armours and the paradoxes inherent in using images of women to decorate them between 1525 and 1550. It argues that foreign invading forces and their allies exploited or inverted traditional gender binaries associated with the classical and humanist iconography of the Italian Renaissance, particularly its female allegorical forms, to visually signify power …
Susan North, Sweet & Clean? Bodies and Clothes in Early Modern England
The queens' dressmakers: Women's work and the clothing trades in late seventeenth-century London
Increased patterns of consumption during the late seventeenth century afforded new opportunities in the fashion trades for women, establishing mantua-making as an enduring form of female employment. The rise of these women has not been well documented in England or outside of the guilds, organisations that traditionally sought to marginalise the place of women in the craft trades. This article utilises verb and noun methodologies, alongside quali…
Selling India goods: East Indies trade and the rise of female makers and retailers in seventeenth and eighteenth-century England
In late seventeenth-century Europe, textiles, porcelain, lacquerware and other ‘India goods’ abounded. While a large body of scholarship on the East India trade exists, the important role of women as merchants, makers and retailers has yet to be fully examined. This article contributes to scholarship on women’s retail businesses, the later seventeenth-century fashion system, and the consumption of Asian wares in Europe. Using a wide range of arch…
Co‐Development and Validation of a Patient‐Reported Experience Measure for Trans and Gender Diverse Young People: A Multi‐Stage Participatory Study Protocol
BACKGROUND: Trans and gender diverse (trans) young people experience higher rates of physical and mental ill-health due to chronic exposure to gender minority stress. Consequently, trans young people report higher health and mental healthcare service utilisation. Disconcertingly, negative experiences of healthcare services are prevalent among trans young people, especially those with additional marginalised identities and backgrounds who experien…
Queen Anne's Wardrobe: Fashion, Sartorial Politics, and the Representational Strategies of the Last Stuart Queen
The final Stuart monarch, Queen Anne, has often been overlooked in studies of visual and material culture, particularly of fashion and dress. This article is the first to undertake a qualitative and quantitative analysis of the wardrobe accounts of Queen Anne, situating her consumption within the context of the eighteenth‐century fashion marketplace and her representational strategies. Doing so reveals the queen to be a more complex and active pa…
A conceptual review of phenomenological links between trauma and the content of psychotic symptoms
Meaningful relationships between trauma and psychotic symptom content can be identified. However, there is a need for novel methodologies including qualitative research designs and greater rigor when examining content relationships. Further, additional posttraumatic sequelae such as hyperarousal and dissociation may impact the content of psychotic symptoms and should be a focus of future investigation. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all …
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