Shoes and Pattens

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

Until recently, very little was known about medieval shoes. Glimpses in manuscript illustrations and on funerary monuments, with the occasional reference by a contemporary writer, was all that the costume historian had as evidence, not least because leather tends to perish after prolonged contact with air, and very few actual examples survived. In recent years, however, nearly 2...