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Medieval Clothing and Textiles 18
183765185X pdf The best new research on medieval clothing and textiles, drawing from a range of disciplines. The essays collected here continue the Journal's wide-ranging and eclectic tradition. Topics include literary evidence for linen armour serial production in late medieval silks the inventory of Isabella Bruce's bridal goods the depiction of women textile workers in the frescoes of the Salone of the Palazzo della Ragione in Padua, Italy ideal female beauty in the Middle Ages and the means used to attain and assess it and social status as evidenced by clothing and textiles in the Scottish royal treasurer's accounts of the mid-sixteenth century.