the Bibliography
Books & publications I've used for research
CLOTHING & TEXTILES - DRESS ACCESSORIES - WOMEN'S STUDIES - MUSEUMS, CHURCHES & CATHEDRALS - ARTIFACTS -
BRASSES - MANUSCRIPTS - ART & ARTISTS - ARCHITECTURE - MEDICINE - SOCIETY & HISTORY - ECONOMICS - HERALDRY

These are grouped into topics but many of these books are useful for a number of areas of research. In the interests of brevity, these books have been included in the areas I found them most useful.

Clothing and Textiles

	Textiles and Clothing, c.1150-1450: Finds from Medieval Excavations in London Medieval Finds from Excavations in London series by Elisabeth Crowfoot, Frances Pritchard & Kay Staniland Museum of London, The Boydell Press. 1992
	Dress In Italian Painting 1460 - 1500 by Elizabeth Birbari W&J Mackay Limited, Great Britain: 1975
	Dress In The Middle Ages Francoise Piponnier & Perrine Mane Yale University Press, New Haven & London. 1997 Translated by Caroline Beamish.
	Fashion in the Age of the Black Prince: A Study of the Years 1340-1365 by Stella Mary Newton Boydell & Brewer Ltd The Boydell Press 1980
	A Dictionary of English Costume 900-1900 by C.W. & P.E. Cunnington and Charles Beard. Adam & Charles Black, London. 1960.
	Pattern Design An Introduction to the Study of Formal Ornamentation with over 400 illustrations by Archibald H Christie Dover Publications Inc, New York, 1969
	Medieval Fabrications Dress, Textiles, Cloth Work & other Cultural Imaginings edited by E. Jane Burns The New Middle Ages Series Palgrave Macmillian, 2004
	Medieval Clothing and Textiles Book 1 Edited by Robin Netherton and Gale R. Owen-Crocker The Boydell Press. 2005
	Medieval Clothing and Textiles Book 2 Edited by Robin Netherton and Gale R. Owen-Crocker The Boydell Press. 2005
	Medieval Clothing and Textiles Book 3 Edited by Robin Netherton and Gale R. Owen-Crocker The Boydell Press. 2005
	The Medieval Tailor's Assistant- making common garments 1200 - 1500 by Sarah Thursfield. Quite Specific Media Group Ltd. California 2001
	Medieval Costume and Fashion by Herbert Norris. Dover Publications Inc, 1999
	English Costume of the Early Middle Ages- The Tenth to the Thirteenth Centuries Drawn & described by Iris Brooke A & C Black, London, 1936
	A History of Costume In The West by Francois Boucher Thames & Hutton, London. 1989
	Stockings & Suspenders A Quick Flash by Rosemary Hawthorne Souvenier Press. Great Britain. 1993
	Bras A Private View by Rosemary Hawthorne Souvenier Press. Great Britain. 1992
	La Cotte Simple An exploration of clothing and accessories of the late 14th and early 15th centuries by Tasha Dandelion Kelly http://www.cottesimple.com/index.html Copyright ©2003–2011
	Some Clothing of the Middle Ages Historical Clothing from Archaeological Finds by I. Marc Carleson http://www.personal.utulsa.edu/~marc-carlson/cloth/bockhome.html Copyright 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2005.

Dress Accessories

	Dress Accessories 1150-1450 Medieval Finds from Excavations In London Geoff Egan and Frances Pritchard Museum of London The Boydell Press, 2002
	Shoes and Pattens Medieval Finds from Excavations in London Francis Grew & Margarethe de Neergaard Museum of London The Boydell Press, 2001
	Kat's Hats- Historical hats clothes and accessiories by Katrina Wood http://www.kats-hats.co.uk/ © 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011
	Seven Thousand Years of Jewellery edited by Hugh Tait British Museum Press New edition edition (April 1989)
	Medieval Jewellery in Europe 1100-1500 by Marion Campbell V&A Museum V&A Publishing, London 2009

Women's Studies

	Medieval Women- A Social History of Women in England 450 - 1500. by Henrietta Leyser Pheonix Giant Paperback, Orion Books, London
	A Medieval Home Companion - Housekeeping in the Fourteenth Century HarperTrade, New York. 1991
	Between Pit and Pedestal- Women in the Middle Ages by Marty Williams and Anne Echols Markus Wiener Publishers, Princeton, NJ 1994
	A Small Sound of the Trumpet - Women in Medieval Life by Margaret W Labarge Beacon Press, Boston 1986
	Women and Power in the Middle Ages by Editors Mary Erler & Maryanne Kowaleski Univ of Georgia Pr, Athens, Georgia, U.S.A. 1988.
	Most Wise & Valiant Ladies- Remarkable Lives, Women of the Middle Ages by Andrea Hokins Welcome Rain / Collins, London. 2000
	Women in the Middle Ages- The Lives of Real Women in a Vibrant Age of Transition by Frances & Joseph Gies Harper & Row, New York. 1980.
	Women in the Medieval English Countryside: Gender & Household in Brigstock Before the Plague by Judith M Bennett Oxford University Press, New York. 1987
	Love and Marriage in the Middle Ages by George Duby The University of Chicago Press, 1994 Translated by Jane Dunnett.
	Women, Family and Society in Medieval Europe- Historical Essays, 1978-1991 by David Herlihy Berghahn Books. USA 1995
	Love Locked Out- A Survey of Love, Licence and Restriction in the Middle Ages by James Cleugh Athony Blond, London. 1963
	The Artifice of Beauty A History and Practical Guide to Perfumes and Cosmetics by Sally Pointer The History Press Ltd 2005

Artifacts

	The Secular Spirit: Life and Art at the End of the Middle Ages by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. EP Dutton & Co NY Inc.
	Prague, Crown of Bohemia- 1347-1437 edited by Barbara Drake Boehm and Jiri Fajit Metropolitian Museum of Art Yale University Press New Haven and London, 2005
	The Medieval Art of Love- Objects and Subjects of Desire by Michael Camille Laurence King Publishing, London 1998
	Medieval Artifacts Catalogue and Price Guide by Nigel Mills Greenlight Publishing, Essex
	Medieval & Renaissance Material Culture by Karen Larsdatter http://www.larsdatter.com/sitemap.htm

Museums, Churches & Cathedrals

	The Berlin Museum- Paintings in the Picture Gallery, Dahlem-West Berlin by Rudiger Klessmann translated from the German Harry N Abrams Inc. New York 1971
	The Poldi - Pezzoli Museum in Milan Visitor's Guide by Franco Russoli Arnaud, Florence. 1970
	The Peter and Paul Altarpiece and Friedrich Pacher by Avraham Ronen Tel Aviv University, Jerusalem. 1974
	The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Guide edited by Kathleen Howard The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. 1983
	Art Treasures in France- Monuments, Masterpieces, Commissions & Collections by Paul Hamlyn, The Hamlyn Publishing Group Ltd. London, Sydney 1969
	Art Treasures in Germany- Monuments, Masterpieces, Commissions & Collections by Paul Hamlyn, The Hamlyn Publishing Group Ltd. London, Sydney
	Art Treasures in Italy- Monuments, Masterpieces, Commissions & Collections by Paul Hamlyn, The Hamlyn Publishing Group Ltd. London, Sydney
	Kaariye Mosque The Old Hora Monastery Guzel Sanatlar Matbaasi. Turkey. 1979
	Zagorsk State Museum- Preserve of History and Art An Illustrated Guidebook Planeta Publishers, Moscow, 1988

Brasses

	Brasses and Brass Rubbings by Clare Gittings Blandford Press, London. 1970
	Hertfordshire Brasses- A Guide To Brasses in the Churches of Hertfordshire by Mary Rensten Hertfordshire Publications 1982
	Brasses by JMS Ward, B.A., F.R.Hist.S The Cambridge Manuals of Science & Literature Cambridge at the University Press, 1912

Manuscripts

	Medieval Rural Life from the Luttrell Psalter by Janet Backhouse The British Library, 2000
	The Medieval Health Handbook Tacuinum Sanitatis Translated and adapted by Oscar Ratti and Adele Westbrook from the original Italian edition by Luisa Cogliati Arano George Braziller NY 1976
	The Trotula: An English Translation of the Medieval Compendium of Women's Medicine The Middle Ages Series edited by Monica H. Green University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002
	Hildegard von Bingen's Physica: The Complete English Translation of Her Classic Work on Health and Healing edited by Priscilla Throop Healing Arts Press, 1998
	Illuminated Manuscripts by John Bradley Braken Books, London 1996
	Gothic Illuminated Manuscripts by Emma Pirani Hamlyn, 1966
	Magna Carta - Icon of Liberty edited by Rex Davis Published by the Dean and Chapter of Lincoln
	Illuminated Manuscripts The Pocket Library of Art Brockhampton Press, London, 1997
	Czechoslovakian Miniatures- From Romanesque and Gothic Manuscripts by Jan Kvet Fontana Unesco Art Books, 1964
	Illustrated Letters of the Paston Family- Private Life In The 15th Century edited by Roger Virgoe Macmillian, London. 1989
	Basic Documents in Medieval History No. 38 by Norton Downs An Anvil Original D. Van Nostrand Co, New Jersey. 1959

Art & Artists

	Art and Society in Italy 1350 - 1500 by Evelyn Welch Oxford History of Art series, Oxford University Press. 1997
	Flemish Painting From Van Eyck To Breughel Translated from the French by Jonathan Griffin by Pierre Courthion The Student's Gallery series, Thames & Hudson, London. 1958
	The Book Of Art- Volume 1 Origins of Western Art Text by Dr Donald E Strong Grolier Incorporated. Designed in London. Printed in Italy. 1965
	Early Medieval Art by John Beckwith Praeger World of Art Paperbacks, Books That Matter. 1964
	The Italian Renaissance- Painting of the Western World by Ian Barras Hill Galley press. Netherlands. 1980
	Artists of the Renaissance- A selection from "Lives of the Artists" by Giorgio Vasari Penguin Books Ltd. London. 1965
	The Paintings of Bruegel Bruegel. The Paintings. Complete Edition by F Grossmann Phaidon press, London.
	A Documentary History of Art. Volume 1. The Middle Ages and the Renaissance Selected and Edited by Elizabeth Gilmore Holt A DoubleDay Anchor Book. Garden City. New York
	Art and Beauty in the Middle Ages by Umberto Eco Yale Univ Press, 1988
	Van Eyck To Bruegel- The Fifteenth Century By Friedlander Phaidon. Great Britain. 1969 Translated from the German by Marguerite Kay
	Peinture Francais- Des Origines au XVI seicle Collection des Maitres by Germain Bazin Conservateur adjoint au Musee du Louvre Braun & C, Paris 1937
	15th Century Paintings (English translation) by Rose-Marie & Rainer Hagen Icon Series, Taschen. 2001
	1000 Masterpieces of European Painting from 1300 to 1850 by Christiane Stukenbrock & Babara Topper. Konemann
	The Waning of the Middle Ages. A Study in the Forms of Life, Thought & Art in France and the Netherlands in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries by J Huizinga. Translated by F Hopman Penguin books, 1965.
	Wet Wall Tattoos- Ben Long and the Art Of Fresco by Richard Maschal USA. 1993
	The Art of Fresco Painting in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance by Mrs Mary P Merrifield Dover Publications

Architecture

	The Manor Houses of England by PH Ditchfield Illustrated by Sydney R Jones Studio Editions Ltd. The Guernsey Press Co. 1994
	Art and Architecture of the Late Middle Ages 1350 to the Advent of the Renaissance by Wim Swaam Crescent Books. NY 1982
	Heavenly Vaults From Romanesque to Gothis in European Architecture by David Stephenson Princton Architectural Press, NY. 2009
	Medieval Ornamental Styles Polychromatic Decoration as Applied to Buildings in the Medieval Style by W & G Audsley Wordsworth Editions, 1988

Medicine

	The Medieval Health Handbook Tacuinum Sanitatis Translated and adapted by Oscar Ratti and Adele Westbrook from the original Italian edition by Luisa Cogliati Arano George Braziller NY 1976
	The Trotula: An English Translation of the Medieval Compendium of Women's Medicine The Middle Ages Series edited by Monica H. Green University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002
	Hildegard von Bingen's Physica: The Complete English Translation of Her Classic Work on Health and Healing edited by Priscilla Throop Healing Arts Press, 1998
	The Western Medical Tradition: 800 BC to AD 1800 by Lawrence I. Conrad Cambridge University Press. 1995
	Culpeper's Complete Herbal & English Physician by Culpeper Chrysalis Books, Greenwich Editions 2003

Society
ENGLAND - EUROPE - WORK - TRAVEL - DEATH - MISCELLANEOUS

England
	The Time-traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century by Ian Mortimer The Bodley Head Ltd, 2008
	The Batsford Companion to Medieval England by Nigel Saul Batsford Academic & Educational Ltd., London. 1983
	The English Medieval Town by Colin Platt Secker & Warburg. London. 1976
	The Story of England- Makers of the Realm by Arthur Bryant Collins, London. 1961
	English Society in the Early Middle Ages (1066-1307) by Doris Mary Stenton The Pelican History of England, Penguin Books 1962
	A Strong Land & A Sturdy. England in the Middle Ages The Mirror of Britain Series by Richard Barbar Andre Deutsch Ltd, London, 1976
	Chronicles of the Age of Chivalry- The Plantagenet dynasty from 1216 to 1377: Henry III and the three Edwards, the Era of the Black Prince and the Black Death by Elizabeth Hallam Tiger Books International, London 1995
	Mistress, Maids and Men- Baronial Life in the Thirteenth Century by Margaret Wade Labarge Pheonix. Great Britain. 1965
	Life In Norman England- English Life Series by O.G. Tomkeieff BT Batsford Ltd. London W1
	The Life And Times Of Richard I by John Gillingham. General Editor: Antonia Fraser Book Club Associates, London 1973
	Daily Life In Chaucer's England By Jeffrey L. Singman and Will McLean Greenwood Press 1995
	Crusaders and Medieval Knights of Britain by Sir David O'Lorcan.
	The Wars of the Roses - Lancaster and York by Alison Weir Jonathan Cape, Random House UK. 1995
	Seven Hundred Years of English Cooking by Maxine McKendry edited by Arabell Boxer Treasure Press. January 1, 1973
Europe
	Life In Medieval France by Joan Evans Phaidon. First published 1929
	Europe: Hierarchy and Revolt 1320 - 1450 by George Holmes Fontana History of Europe. Fontana/Collins 1975
	Western Europe In The Middle Ages by Joesph R Strayer Prentice Hall Inc. New Jersey. 1974
	Later Medieval Europe from St Louis to Luther by Daniel Waley A Longman Paperback. London 1975
	What Life Was Like in the Age Of Chivalry Medieval Europe AD 800 - 1500 by the Editors of Time Life Books, Alexandria, Virginia
	Medieval European Society, 1000 - 1450 by Margaret Hastings Douglass College, Random House, New York 1971
	Eastern and Western Europe in the Middle Ages by K. Bosl, A. Guiysztor, F. Graus, M.M. Postan, F. Seibt Library of European Civilization Thames & Hudson, London, 1970
	Spain In The Middle Ages from Frontier to Empire, 1000 - 1500 by Angus McKay New Studies In Medieval History Macmillian Press, 1977
	The Imperial Age of Venice 1380 - 1580- Library of European Civilization by D S Chambers Thames and Hudson. London 1970
Work
	Making A Living in the Middle Ages The People of Britain, 850 – 1520 by Christopher Dyer Yale University Press, 2009
	Traditional Crafts and Skills- Life and Work in Medieval and Renaissance Times by Vaclav Husa Translated by Iris Irwin Paul Hamlyn, printed in Czechoslovakia, 1967
	The Making of the Middle Ages by R W Southern Hutchinson Univarsity Library, Oxford, London. 1967 edition
	The Arts in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance by Paul Lacroix Bracken Books, London, 1996
	Archery In The Middle Ages- Sources of History by E. K. Milliken, MA Macmillan. 1967
	Life in a Medieval Village by Francis and Joesph Gies HarperCollins, 1991
Travel
	Pilgrimage- An Image of Medieval Religion by Jonathan Sumption Faber & Faber, London.1975
	Everyday Life of Medieval Travellers by Marjorie Rowling BT Batsford ltd. Dorset Press, New York. 1989
	Pilgrimage To Canterbury by Howard Loxton Douglas David & Charles Ltd. Vancouver, Canada
	The Atlas of Medieval Man by Colin Platt Peerage Books. Macmillan, London. 1985
	Medieval World The TIMES - Mapping History by Rosamund McKitterick Times Books, HarperCollins, 2003
Death
	The Black Death by Phillip Ziegler Readers Union, Collins, London 1969
	Death and Art Europe 1200-1530 by Eleanor Townsend V&A Museum V&A Publishing, London. 2009
	The Black Death A Personal History by John Hatcher Da Capo Press, England 2008
	After the Black Death A Social History of Early Modern Europe by George Huppert Indiana University Press Bloomington. USA 2008
Miscellaneous
	A Dictionary of Medieval Terms and Phrases by Christopher Coredon with Ann Williams DS Brewer, Cambridge, 2004
	Renaissance Secrets Recipes & Formvlas by Jo Wheeler Victoria & Albert Museum, V&A Publishing, Kensington, London. 2009
	Inside the Medieval World . A Panorama of Life in the Middle Ages by James Harpur Cardigan Street Publishers, Melbourne. 1995. Elizabeth Hallam, Consultant.
	A Dictionary of Chivalry by Grant Uden Kestrel Books, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, UK. 1977.
	Age of Chivalry - Art and Society in Late Medieval England Nigel Saul (editor) Brockhampton Press, England, 1995.
	The Northern Renaissance by Jeffrey Chipps Smith Phaidon. London. 2004
	Medieval Gardens- A Book Of Days Past Times, CLB Publishing Ltd. 1995
	Man and Society. The Middle Ages by David Mahoney Methuen of Australia, Brisbane, 1976
	The Medieval Castle- Life In A Fortress In Peace and War by Phillip Warner Arthur Barker Ltd. London. 1971
	Everyday Life Throught The Ages A journey of discovery through over 15 000 years of world history Reader's Digest Association Limited London 1992
	Medieval Places by Sarah Howarth The Millbrook Press, Connecticut, 1992
	Medieval People by Sarah Howarth The Millbrook Press, Connecticut, 1992
	The Bayeux Tapestry by L Musset, Professer at Caen University Artaud Freres Publication
	Tapestries from the Renaissance to the 19th Century Cassell's Styles In Art Cassell Publishers Ltd, London 1988
	The Illustrated Reference Book of The Ages of Discovery Joy of Knowledge Edited by James Mitchell Colporteur Press, Sydney Australia, 1982
	The Horizon Book of the Middle Ages Authored by Morris Bishop Horizon Magazine, Cassell & Company Ltd. London WC1 1968
	The Age of Adversity : The Fourteenth Century by Robert E Lerner Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY. 1968
	The Close of the Middle Ages, 1273-1494 by R. Lodge, MA, LLD. Prof History at Edinborough University Rivingtons, London. 1915
	Black's History Pictures- The Middle Ages 1066-1485 by GH Reed, MA. A&C Black Ltd. London.

Economics

	History of Money- Discovery of Sciences Series by Antoine Ascain & Jean-Marie Arnaud translated by Joan White 1967
	Social and Economic Foundations of the Italian Renaissance- Major Issues in History edited by Anthony Molholo John Wiley & Sons Inc. USA 1969
	A Social and Economic History of Medieval Europe by Gerald A J Hodgett Methuen & Co Ltd. London. 1972
	The Medieval Economy & Society- An Economic History of Britain in the Middle Ages by MM Postan Pelican Books, 1972
	Medieval Commerce by Howard L Adelson An Anvil Original, Van Nostrand, City University of New York, 1962
	Medieval Cities - Their Origins and the Revival of Trade. by Henri Pirenne A Doubleday Anchor Book, Princeton University Press. 1925
	Cathedral, Forge and Waterwheel Technology and Invention in the Middle Ages by Frances and Joseph Gies Harper Perennial 1995
	Shopping In History by Sheila Robertson Wayland Ltd., East Sussex, London. 1984

Heraldry

	Heraldry by Henry Bedingfeld, Rouge Croix Pursuivant, Peter Gwynn-Jones, Lancaster Herald Bison Books, London. 1993
	Handbook of Herandry- With Instructions for Tracing Pedigrees & Deciphering Ancient Mss. Rules for the Appointment of Liveries &c by John E Cussans Fourth edition with upwards of 400 illustrations. Chatto & Windus, Piccadilly, London. 1983.
	The Art of Heraldry by Carl-Alexander von Volborth Tiger Books International, London. 1987
	Heraldry Decoration and Floral Forms by Herbert Cole. Crescent Books, London
	The British Herald V2: Or Cabinet of Armorial Bearings of the Nobility and Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland: From the Earliest to the Present by Thomas Robson (Editor)
	A Grammar of English Heraldry by WH St John Hope, Litt D., Hon DCL (Durham) The Cambridge Manuals of Science & Literature Cambridge at the University Press, 1913

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