Women's Hats, Headdresses and Hairstyles
Women's Hats, Headdresses and Hairstyles

Author: Georgine de Courtais

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2013-01-16

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 0486136698

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453 illustrations provide authentic record of over 1,300 years of changing hairstyles and headwear in England: everything from wimples and crespines worn in Anglo-Saxon times to early-Victorian bonnets and pillboxes.

Medieval People
Medieval People

Author: Eileen Power

Publisher: Jovian Press

Published: 2017-12-06

Total Pages: 150

ISBN-13: 153780426X

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Social history sometimes suffers from the reproach that it is vague and general, unable to compete with the attractions of political history either for the student or for the general reader, because of its lack of outstanding personalities. In point of fact there is often as much material for reconstructing the life of some quite ordinary person as there is for writing a history of Robert of Normandy or of Philippa of Hainault; and the lives of ordinary people so reconstructed are, if less spectacular, certainly not less interesting...

The Encyclopaedia Britannica
The Encyclopaedia Britannica

Author: Hugh Chisholm

Publisher:

Published: 1910

Total Pages: 1180

ISBN-13:

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This eleventh edition was developed during the encyclopaedia's transition from a British to an American publication. Some of its articles were written by the best-known scholars of the time and it is considered to be a landmark encyclopaedia for scholarship and literary style.