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  Accuracy and authenticity are essential to all re-enactors, and these books, now including Gale Owen-Crocker’s definitive guide to Anglo-Saxon dress, will help maintain those already high standards. 
 
     
  Anglo-Saxon Button Brooches
Typology, Genealogy, Chronology
Seiichi Suzuki
Extensive study of the entire corpus of Anglo-Saxon button brooches, looking at their design, origins and development.
 
  Chaucer and Clothing: Clerical and Academic Costume in the General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
Laura F. Hodges
A detailed discussion of the meaning and significance of the terms used to describe the clothing of Chaucer's religious and academic pilgrims.
 
  Dress Accessories, c.1150-c.1450
Geoff Egan & Frances Pritchard

Description and discussion of over two thousand brooches, rings, buckles, pendants, buttons, purses and other accessories found in archaeological digs in London, and dating from the period 1150-1450.
 
  Dress in Anglo-Saxon England
Revised and Enlarged Edition
Gale R. Owen-Crocker
An encyclopaedic study of English dress from the fifth to the eleventh centuries, drawing evidence from archaeology, text and art.
 
 
  Fashion in the Age of the Black Prince
A Study of the Years 1340-1365
Stella Mary Newton
A close study of clothes worn by aristocratic families and their households at the time of the Black Prince - and of Chaucer - showing Europe-wide influences.
 
  Funeral Effigies of Westminster Abbey
Edited by Anthony Harvey
Edited by Richard Mortimer
Scholarly, well-footnoted and copiously illustrated... essential reading for those interested in the personages, and for hiCatalogue of knives and scabbards found in London excavations, with discussion of date, technology, decoration and function.storians of costume. ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW
 
  Knives and Scabbards
J. Cowgill & M. de Neergaard, N. Griffiths
Catalogue of knives and scabbards found in London excavations, with discussion of date, technology, decoration and function.
 
  Medieval Clothing and Textiles 1
Edited by Robin Netherton
Edited by Gale R. Owen-Crocker

First volume in new series dedicated to medieval clothing and textiles, drawing from a range of disciplines and with a special focus on reconstruction and re-enactment.
 
  Medieval Clothing and Textiles 2
Edited by Robin Netherton
Edited by Gale R. Owen-Crocker
The best new research on medieval clothing and textiles, drawing from a range of disciplines and with a special focus on reconstruction and re-enactment.
 
  Medieval Clothing and Textiles 3
Edited by Robin Netherton
Edited by Gale R. Owen-Crocker

The best new research on medieval clothing and textiles, drawing from a range of disciplines and with a special focus on reconstruction.
 
  Medieval Clothing and Textiles 4
Edited by Robin Netherton
Edited by Gale R. Owen-Crocker

The best new research on medieval clothing and textiles, drawing from a range of disciplines and with a special focus on reconstruction.
 
  Medieval Clothing and Textiles: volumes 1-3 [set]
Edited by Robin Netherton
Edited by Gale R. Owen-Crocker
The first three volumes of this highly-respected series are now available as an attractively-priced set.
 
  Shoes and Pattens
Francis Grew & Margrethe de Neegaard, Susan Mitford [illustrations]
The best scholarship focused on shoes and everyday dress accessories from the Middle Ages. Indispensable. SPECULUM
 
  Textiles and Clothing, c.1150-1450
Elisabeth Crowfoot & Frances Pritchard, Kay Staniland
A model of clarity... It provides absolutely essential reference material for the dress historian and archaeologist, for the early textile specialist, and those interested in the tools and equipment used.
TOOL AND TRADES HISTORY SOCIETY NEWSLETTER [Linda Woolley, curator of early and medieval textiles and dress, V&A Museum]