Dress in Anglo-Saxon EnglandA vivid and detailed reconstruction of the costume worn in England before the arrival of the Norman conquerers. |
Contents
A historical framework | 10 |
Womens costume in the fifth and sixth | 35 |
Mens costume in the fifth and sixth | 104 |
Womens costume from the seventh | 128 |
Mens costume from the seventh to the | 166 |
Womens costume in the tenth and eleventh | 202 |
Mens costume in the tenth and eleventh | 232 |
The constellation Perseus from London British Li | 253 |
Figure in mail from the Bayeux Tapestry | 268 |
Textiles and textile production | 272 |
Zspinning | 282 |
The significance of dress | 316 |
Old English garmentnames | 332 |
A possible cutting plan for an eleventh | 342 |
Index | 379 |
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Anglian Anglo Anglo-Saxon art Anglo-Saxon cemetery Anglo-Saxon England Anglo-Saxon period appear Archaeological band Bayeux Tapestry beads belt Bender Jørgensen Birka braid British Library buckle burial Castledyke cloak cloth Colour Plate Corpus costume Crowfoot decorated depicted dress early Anglo-Saxon ecclesiastical elaborate embroidery evidence example Excavations fabric fastened female figure fillet Finglesham Frankish Franks Casket garment Germanic girdle glosses gold gown Grave grave-goods hair Harley Psalter headdress helmet Hexateuch jewellery Kent King late Anglo-Saxon Latin leather linen London male manuscript Medieval metal neck Old English ornament Oxford pagan pair peplos perhaps pins possible probably Psalter rings Roman Saxon Scandinavian sculpture secular seventh century Ship Burial shoes shoulder silk skirt sleeves suggests surviving Sutton Hoo tablet weave tablet-woven tenth century textile Textile Production threads Tiberius trousers tunic twill undergarment Viking Vocabularies Walton Rogers warp-weighted loom wear weaving Winchester woman women wool word wore worn woven Wright/Wülcker