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Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period

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By P. L. Jacob
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This work surveys social life, institutions, and material culture across medieval and Renaissance Europe, linking artistic forms with the ideas and daily practices that produced them. It traces the fusion of Roman, Germanic, and Christian traditions as they shape royalty, feudal relations, land tenure, and evolving urban institutions, and follows transformations from slavery to serfdom and peasantry. Chapters describe ceremonial law, markets, crafts and guilds, and the role of fashion and dress as social expression, supported by reproductions of miniatures and prints that illustrate costumes and customs. The treatment combines institutional outline with scenes of domestic, commercial, and civic life.

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Title: Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period

Author: P. L. Jacob

Release date: February 1, 2004 [eBook #10940]
Most recently updated: October 28, 2024

Language: English

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The Queen of Sheba before Solomon

(Costume of 15th century.)

Fac-simile of a miniature from the Breviary of the Cardinal Grimani, attributed to Memling. Bibl. of S. Marc, Venice. (From a copy in the possession of M. Ambroise Firmin-Didot.)

The King inclines his sceptre towards the Queen indicating his appreciation of her person and her gifts; five ladies attend the Queen and five of the King's courtiers stand on his right hand.

Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages, and During the Renaissance Period.

By Paul Lacroix
(Bibliophile Jacob),
Curator of the Imperial Library of the Arsenal, Paris.

Illustrated with
Nineteen Chromolithographic Prints by F. Kellerhoven
and upwards of
Four Hundred Engravings on Wood.