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Medieval Fashion: A Study of Style and Function
What people wore in the Middle Ages and why: fabrics, layered garments, work clothes, and the ways dress signaled rank, age, trade and marital status.
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Dress, Festivals and Folklore
Clothing, holy days, customs and legends.
Medieval Fashion and Style: A Study of the Art of Expression
How the medieval wealthy used clothing to display rank: sumptuary laws, costly dyes and colors, and the changing silhouettes of late medieval courts.
Medieval Festivals and Celebrations: A Look at the Past
A guide to the medieval church calendar: Advent, Christmas, Lent, Easter, saints' days and harvest observances, and how holy days structured the year.
Medieval Festivals and Celebrations: A Study of Tradition
An honest look at medieval folk customs such as fairs, mummers, May games, church ales and the Boy Bishop, and how much about them is actually known.
Medieval Folklore: Myths and Legends
A survey of medieval folklore: Arthurian legend, saints' tales, fairies and wild beasts, and how stories were told, written down and spread across Europe.
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Learning and Science Schools, universities, stars and maps. Food and Drink What people ate and drank, from peasant pottage to noble feasts. Literature and Legends Poems, sagas and tales told across the Middle Ages. Music and Entertainment Songs, dance, jesters and court amusements. Science and Technology Alchemy, astronomy, ships and the tools that changed work. Women in Medieval Society Work, law, family and religious life for medieval women. Poets and Authors Writers of the medieval world and those who shaped how it is remembered. Medieval Lives Typical lives of a peasant, a knight and a monk. Courtly Love and Ideals Love, chastity and etiquette in noble circles. Elements, Humors and Senses Medieval theories of matter, the body and perception. Medieval Worldview How medieval people thought about time, seasons, life stages and fate. Universities, Oxford and Cambridge How universities arose and how Oxford and Cambridge took shape. Everyday Life Details Homes, hygiene, childhood, marriage and death in ordinary medieval lives.