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Medieval Memoria Online (from the Netherlands)

I know I mainly keep to German topics, but this was just too cool not to share. There's a project out of the Netherlands called the Medieval Memoria Online (MeMO) to "help scholars in carrying out research into memoria during the period up to the Reformation (c. 1580) in the area that is the present-day country of the Netherlands." To assist memoria scholars MeMO has therefore catalogued the following different types of sources: memorial registers narrative sources ... continue reading...


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Vocabulary: Hemd (female)

A couple of people have asked for this, so I thought I'd write a series on the basic garment vocabulary. Lets start with the skin out, shall we? The most basic layer for a woman is the hemd, plural hemden. This word roughly translates to smock, shirt, chemise, and is the layer worn on the body next to the skin.  Of course, its not that simple, there were several types of hemd mentioned in the period inventories, and those are just the ones that were worth enough to note down in the ... continue reading...


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True Confessions

Where to start...? Its always difficult to explain to strangers why you haven't done what you said you were hoping to do, without  going into far too many personal details, but my lack of activity and writing on this site is due to far more than just life and its variable challenges and difficulties.    Ten years ago, this site started out as a place to share dress diaries. Back before there really were easy to use blogging platforms, you had to put up a whole website and usually ... continue reading...


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Jan 21, 2012 The New Site

Ah it feels great to be on the new site, with lots of room to expand and a new look. However, if you've just come here, looking for something specific, you'll notice a couple of things: I've re-organized things at bit, so you might find the site map helpful as certain articles have changed places. The old tags didn't transfer to the new site. Guess that would have been a good thing to record before I took down the old site, right? Um, yah, I'll be rebuilding those in the next few ... continue reading...


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Clothing Details

Manuscripts that contain interesting clothing details ... continue reading...


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