Shoes and Pattens

by Francis Grew, Margrethe de Neergaard, Susan Mitford

Book Overview

The best scholarship focused on shoes and everyday dress accessories from the Middle Ages. Indispensable. SPECULUM

Until recently, very little was known about medieval shoes. Glimpses in manuscript illustrations and on funerary monuments, with the occasional reference by a contemporary writer, was all that the costume historian had as evidence, not least because leather tends to perish after prolonged contact with air, and very few actual examples...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1843832380
• ISBN13: 9781843832386
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Boydell Press
• Length: 156 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.3" x 9.6"