Burgundian Costume: Being a study of women’s formal dress of Northern Europe, especially Burgundy and Flanders, in the later half of the 15th century
The fashionable dress of the later 15th Century has become iconographic with our modern idea of medievalism. Such popular portrayal, largely inauthentic, has linked it with the re-enactor’s idea of bad medievalism.
The Queen as ‘social mannequin’. Consumerism and expenditure at the Court of Isabeau of Bavaria, 1393–1422
The Queen as ‘social mannequin’. Consumerism and expenditure at the Court of Isabeau of Bavaria, 1393–1422 Gibbons, Rachel C. Journal of Medieval History, Vol. 26,…
Clothing in Dubrovnik in the 16th Century – A Reflection of a Multicultural Center
Clothing in Dubrovnik in the 16th Century – A Reflection of a Multicultural Center By Katarina Nina Simončič Paper given at the 3rd…
Late Saxon Textiles from the City of London
Late Saxon Textiles from the City of London By Francis A. Pritchard Medieval Archaeology, Vol.28 (1984) Abstract: Archaeological investigations in the City of…
The Importance of the Belt in Religious and Secular Medieval Courtly Love Literature
Three stories from this time period focus on a sort of courtly love relationship between two people that involves this characteristic giving of a gift: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Guigemar, and an apocryphal account of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary into heaven by “John the Evangelist”. These seemingly different stories share one unifying bond: a belt.
Fashioning the Middle Ages: Teaching Medieval Culture Through Clothing
The first hurdle is to make sure students accept that these are clothes, not costumes. Despite how odd some medieval fashions look to modern eyes, people in the past wore this clothing every day, found it comfortable, reasonable, and lovely, and were able to accomplish what they needed to while wearing it.
Medieval North European Spindles and Whorls
This document discusses spindle whorls and shafts found throughout the areas Scandinavians lived in during the Middle Ages (800-1500 CE).
Historical Fencing Footwear: “What shoes to train in?” Ask instead, what did Medieval and Renaissance fighters wear?
Historical Fencing Footwear: “What shoes to train in?” Ask instead, what did Medieval and Renaissance fighters wear? Clements, John ARMA, The Association of Medieval…
Concepts of Childhood: What We Know and Where We Might Go
They have explored such issues, among others, as the varieties of European household structure; definitions of the stages of life; childbirth, wetnursing, and the role of the midwife; child abandonment and the foundling home; infanticide and its prosecution; apprenticeship, servitude, and fostering; the evolution of schooling; the consequences of religious diversification; and the impact of gender
‘í litklæðum’ – Coloured Clothes in Medieval Scandinavian Literature and Archaeology
What do we mean by ‘coloured clothes’? Or rather, what did the saga writers mean by their term litklæði?
The Costume of the Byzantine Emperors and Empresses
The garments which each participant wore were part of a highly developed dress code that identified an individual’s rank and social status.
The Anti-Red Shift—To the Dark Side: Colour Changes in Flemish Luxury Woollens, 1300–1550
Can anyone possibly imagine the use of clothing in any society, past or present, while ignoring its colours?
The codpiece: social fashion or medical need?
The codpiece had proportions that were at times grotesque, and so extreme that the question of the purpose of its use arises.
Poverty and richly decorated garments : a re-evaluation of their significance in the Vita Christi of Isabel de Villena
Isabel de Villena (1430-1490) was the illegitimate daughter of Enrique de Villena, a wealthy nobleman of the kingdom of Aragon, and granddaughter of Pedro of Aragon.
