Middle Ages costumes and fashion. Period between 700 to 15th century. Style of Byzantine, Carolingian, Romanesque, Gothic and Renaissance.
The Nobility. State Costume — Men 6th, 7th and 8th Centuries. Goldsmiths’ Work. Costume of the Middle Classes Men. Lower Classes. The Glove. Costume of the Nobility Women. Jewellery of the Franks.
At the end of the tenth century the Varangian Guard, an Imperial bodyguard, were a conspicuous, picturesque, and useful adjunct to the Byzantine Court.
German costume history. Middle ages. Women fashion of the 15th century. The fashions that prevailed at the end of the 14th century were still in vogue at the beginning of the… Read More
Mrs. Kendal, Miss Ellen Terry and Mr. Tree in ” The merry wives of Windsor,” by John Collier. The Merry Wives of Windsor is a comedy by William Shakespeare from 1597. The… Read More
Drawings by Averil M. Burleigh. Published in the International Studio in 1913.
The duke’s high dame by Mary Y. Hunter. Female Pre-Raphaelite Painter.
“Dies Irae.” An Illustration to Kenneth Grahame’s “Dream Days.” By Maxfield Parrish. Dream Days is a collection of stories by the English writer Kenneth Grahame, which was first published in 1898
Henry VI, (1421 – 1471) was the last king of England from the house Lancaster. The house Lancaster is a side line of the House Plantagenet and an English royal dynasty.
The Romance of the Rose. The Art of courtly love. 15th century.
Christine de Pizan presenting her manuscript against the Roman de la Rose to Queen Isabeau of Bavaria, France c. 1410 – c. 1414.
