Primary Sources and Context Concerning Joan of Arc’s Male Clothing
A number of the clergy who had served on the tribunal later testified, during the posthumous investigations and appeal of the case (1450, 1452, and 1455-56) after the English were expelled, that the transcript and judges had misrepresented the circumstances and hence the theological implications.
East and West: Textiles and Fashion in Eurasia in the Early Modern Period
Fashion underpinned the commercial growth and cultural transformation of western society. From at least the sixteenth century, fashion’s demotic stimuli unleashed desires across European social ranks.
A “Triangular” Shawl Style for the Viking Age?
Drawing together archaeological evidence of textiles, fastenings, and artwork, from Scandinavia and neighbouring cultures around the 8th-10th centuries.
Pilgrims and Fashion: The Functions of Pilgrims’ Garments
A medieval pilgrimage was a dangerous undertaking. The search for salvation and spiritual as well as physical healing could end in illness, injury, even death.
Leather and Leatherworking in Anglo-Scandinavian and Medieval York
The leather described here spans a range of 600 years and provides an insight into one of York’s principal trades during the Anglo-Scandinavian and medieval periods
‘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 Study of Costume as an aid to dating of Italian Renaissance Paintings
The study of costume of the past is not a study which can be picked up for the sake of dating a painting and then dropped. It demands the same detailed research, background knowledge, and acute observation, combined with imaginative insight, that are essential to the study of art history.
Medieval Leather Clothing – Interview with Jessica Caruso-Reynolds
Talking about medieval leather clothing with designer Jessica Caruso-Reynolds of Emporium Custom Leathers
The Flemish Evidence for the Gender of Weavers and the Boat Shuttle
Professor Berman’s paper details a story about changes in weaving found in the Gesta abbatum Trudonsium…
The Importance of Fashion in Early Modern England
The Importance of Fashion in Early Modern England Kubin, Lindsay Senior Seminar Thesis, Western Oregon University, May (2007) Abstract To twentieth century scholars…
Byzantine Dress Accessories in North Africa: Koiné and Regionality
In North Africa, as in other regions of the Byzantine Empire, supra-regional types and fashions sometimes co-existed with local traditions.
From Flax to Linen in the Medieval Rus Lands
From Flax to Linen in the Medieval Rus Lands By Heidi Sherman Medieval Clothing and Textiles, Volume 4 (2008) Introduction: In the mid-nineteenth…
A Review of the Development of Basketry, Braiding, Crochet, and Felting towards the Creation of Seamless Fashion
A Review of the Development of Basketry, Braiding, Crochet, and Felting towards the Creation of Seamless Fashion By Frankie M.C. Ng Research Journal…
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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