Very excited to announce that my book Shaping Femininity has a cover image and pre-order links! See below for details! About Shaping Femininity In sixteenth and seventeenth-century England, the female silhouette underwent a dramatic change. This very structured form, created using garments called bodies and farthingales, existed in various extremes in Western Europe and beyond,… Continue reading Shaping Femininity Book Cover and Pre-order!
Category: 15th century
When “Medieval” Armour is not quite medieval… Plate Armour and the Renaissance.
Did you know that most of the full body plate armour that we think of as being medieval is in fact usually not really medieval at all?