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Accuracy and authenticity are essential to all re-enactors, and these books, now including Gale Owen-Crocker’s definitive guide to Anglo-Saxon dress, will help maintain those already high standards. 

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Anglo-Saxon Button Brooches: Typology, Genealogy, Chronology
Seiichi Suzuki

Extensive study of the entire corpus of Anglo-Saxon button brooches, looking at their design, origins and development.

Dress Accessories, c.1150-c.1450
Geoff Egan & Frances Pritchard

Description and discussion of over two thousand brooches, rings, buckles, pendants, buttons, purses and other accessories found in archaeological digs in London, and dating from the period 1150-1450.

Dress in Anglo-Saxon England [paperback]
Gale R. Owen-Crocker

An encyclopaedic study of English dress from the fifth to the eleventh centuries, drawing evidence from archaeology, text and art.

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

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.

Knives and Scabbards
J. Cowgill & M. de Neergaard, N. Griffiths

Catalogue of knives and scabbards found in London excavations, with discussion of date, technology, decoration and function.

Previous Volumes in the Medieval Clothing & Textiles Series

Medieval Clothing and Textiles 5
Edited by Robin Netherton
Edited by Gale R. Owen-Crocker

The best new research on medieval clothing and textiles, drawing from a range of disciplines.

Medieval Clothing and Textiles 6
Edited by Robin Netherton
Edited by Gale R. Owen-Crocker

The best new research on medieval clothing and textiles, drawing from a range of disciplines.

Medieval Clothing and Textiles 7
Edited by Robin Netherton
Edited by Gale R. Owen-Crocker

The best new research on medieval clothing and textiles, drawing from a range of disciplines.

Pilgrim Souvenirs and Secular Badges
Brian Spencer

An exceptional reference work to pilgrim and secular badges of the middle ages.

Shoes and Pattens
Francis Grew & Margrethe de Neegaard, Susan Mitford [illustrations]

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

Textiles and Clothing, c.1150-1450
Elisabeth Crowfoot & Frances Pritchard, Kay Staniland

A model of clarity... It provides absolutely essential reference material for the dress historian and archaeologist, for the early textile specialist, and those interested in the tools and equipment used. — TOOL & TRADES HISTORY SOCIETY NEWSLETTER [Linda Woolley, Curator of Early and Medieval Textiles and Dress, V&A Museum]

The Troyes Mémoire: The Making of a Medieval Tapestry
Translated by Tina Kane

First English translation of instructions for designing a medieval tapestry - the only such to survive.


You might also be interested in the following Brochures below:
Spring 2010 Medieval Life Brochure
Spring 2010 Arms, Armour & Warfare Brochure