Fashion in the Age of the Black Prince: A Study of the Years 1340-1365

by Stella Mary Newton

Book Overview

A close study of clothes worn by aristocratic families and their households at the time of the Black Prince - and of Chaucer - showing Europe-wide influences.

1340 to 1363 were years remarkable for dramatic developments in fashion and for extravagant spending on costume, foreshadowing the later luxury of Richard II's court. Stella Mary Newton broke new ground with this detailed study, which discusses fourteenth-century costume in detail. She...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 085115767X
• ISBN13: 9780851157672
• Release Date: October 1999
• Publisher: Boydell Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.6" x 11.0"