I received my copy of this from B&N yesterday:
Scott, Margaret. Medieval Dress & Fashion. London: British Library,
2007. 208 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm. hardcover. ISBN: 9780712306751
0712306757 OCLC: 76851681 List Price: $55.00 (but available at a
good discount)
This is a survey of European dress and fashion (800-1600) through a
study of manuscript illumination and contemporary records. Profusely
illustrated. A pretty book.
An interesting tidbit is the derivation of "scarlet" as "shorn cloth"
(ie. a fulled and shorn woolen cloth) on pg 19. While no footnotes
for statements such as these, there is a nice bibliography organized
by chapters in the back of the book.
Other books by Margaret Scott:
Scott, Margaret. Medieval Clothing and Costumes: Displaying Wealth
and Class in Medieval Times. The library of the Middle Ages. New
York: Rosen Pub. Group, 2004. ISBN: 082393991X 9780823939916 OCLC: 50919960
Scott, Margaret. A Visual History of Costume: The Fourteenth &
Fifteenth Centuries. London: B.T. Batsford, 1986. ISBN: 0713448571
9780713448573 OCLC: 60029331 OCLC: 15806913
Scott, Margaret. Late Gothic Europe, 1400-1500. The history of dress
series. London: Mills & Boon, 1980. ISBN: 0263064298 9780263064292
0391021486 9780391021488 OCLC: 7696226
Beth
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