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Until recently, very little was known about medieval shoes. Glimpses in manuscript illustrations and on funerary monuments, with the occasional reference by a contemporary writer, was all that the costume historian had as evidence, not least because leather tends to perish after prolonged contact with air, and very few actual examples survived. In recent years, however, nearly 2,000 shoes, many complete and in near-perfect condition, have been discovered preserved on the north bank of the Thames, and are now housed in the Museum of London. This collection, all from well-dated archaeological contexts, fills this vast gap in knowledge, making it possible to chart precisely the progress of shoe fashion between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries.… (plus d'informations)
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OBITUARY Margrethe de Neergaard, 1953-1987
Margrethe de Neergaard died in August 1987, at the tragically early age of 34, just as this book was going to press. She had been seriously ill for several years, and it is a tribute to her bravery, determination and sheer enthusiasm for the subject that despite partial disability she was able to bring those sections for which she was chiefly responsible - Shoemaking and Cobbling andShoes in Art and Literature - to a state close to completion.
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The subject of the second fascicule in the Museum of London's series on recent medieval finds from the City is one to which archaeology in Britain has previously made very little contribution.
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Until recently, very little was known about medieval shoes. Glimpses in manuscript illustrations and on funerary monuments, with the occasional reference by a contemporary writer, was all that the costume historian had as evidence, not least because leather tends to perish after prolonged contact with air, and very few actual examples survived. In recent years, however, nearly 2,000 shoes, many complete and in near-perfect condition, have been discovered preserved on the north bank of the Thames, and are now housed in the Museum of London. This collection, all from well-dated archaeological contexts, fills this vast gap in knowledge, making it possible to chart precisely the progress of shoe fashion between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries.
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