Category: Manuscript Analysis
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Timely Fashions: The FitzWilliam Book of Hours, Part Four – Elite Dress
Welcome or welcome back to Timely Fashions! This week we’re wrapping up the FitzWilliam Hours with this edition on elite dress. Perhaps unsurprisingly, given that they were at times custom produced for elite clientele, Books of Hours often feature courtly scenes, with certain activities undertaken by members of the upper…
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Timely Fashions: The FitzWilliam Book of Hours
Part Three: Servants’ Dress Welcome or welcome back, dear reader, This week’s edition will be a little shorter than the others, and once more focused on mens dress. I’ve decided to separate out a category for servants’ dress, which is higher class than peasant dress, but not quite at the…
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Timely Fashions: The FitzWilliam Book of Hours
Part Two: Peasant Mens’ Dress Welcome or welcome back, dear reader, Today I am stepping outside of my usual comfort zone of women’s dress to examine the clothing of men in the lower strata of 16th-century society. As with my prior edition on womens’ dress in the FitzWilliam Hours, not…
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Timely Fashions: The FitzWilliam Book of Hours
Part One: Peasant Womens’ Dress The subtitle of this post is something of a misnomer – the term ‘peasant’ is often vague and doesn’t help in trying to split up the lower strata of 16th century society – but it remains a useful catchall for the more ‘lowly’ people, especially…
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Timely Fashions: Dress in 16th Century Books of Hours
This charming picture of a woman picking grapes first came to my attention whilst reading The Typical Tudor. I was immediately enchanted, and noted that it came from the Hennessy Book of Hours. Throughout the book I found other examples taken from Books of Hours, and soon my curiosity got…
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