Fashion of the Medieval Middle Class
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- We are discussing the middle class and their fashions, how they dressed, the social and economic implications of medieval fashion and how to think about your impression.
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Images of the medieval middle class - Larsdatter Linkspage - explore the links under Artists and Craftsmen, Textile, Trade, but also Gastronomy, Metalwork, Clothing and Accessories, Accessories, and other sections. Some of the links have expired, because this site is quite old, but the metadata is included so you can make a search for the items if they look like they would be relevant to you.
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The Merchant of Prato’s Wife, Margherita Datini and Her World by Ann Crabb, 2015 ISBN 9780472119493, 0472119494
Google book preview:
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Letters by Monna Margherita, an upper middle class woman, wife of A rich merchant in Prato:
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CRAFTSMEN AND INDUSTRY IN LATE MEDIEVAL YORK
Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/22120
Clothing as a Symbol of Charity and Soul Salvation in Late Medieval Kotor (Cattaro) www.academia.edu/2624766/Clot... The Trade of Second Hand Clothing in Fifteenth-Century Florence: Organisation, Conflicts, and Trends www.academia.edu/7516473/The_... Clothes Make the (Wo)Man: Interpreting Evidence of the Secondhand Clothing Trade in Late Medieval England scholarworks.seattleu.edu/cgi... Introduction: Poverty and Charity in past Times warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/e... Death and Burial in Medieval England 1066-1550 - By Christopher Daniell
Encountering Medieval Textiles and Dress, Objects, Texts, Images; edited by Desiree G. Koslin and Janet E. Snyder, ISBN 0230602355/ 9780230602359
The Italian Cotton Industry in the Later Middle Ages 1100-1600; by Maureen Fennell Mazzaoui, ISBN 9780521089609
Stepping Through Time, Archaeological Footwear from Prehistoric Times until 1800, by Olaf Goubitz, ISBN 9789089320049
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Finally! I've been looking for an depth look at medieval clothing. You're a saint.
Really glad you enjoyed it, hopefully you found it helpful.
@@PopulaUrbanum I most certainly did, thank you very much! You deserve more exposure, and I hope your channel finds prosperity. By far, my favorite medieval source, period.
Do we know when the shift occurred from clothes making at home to buying pre-made clothing in the middle class? I've sort of assumed it occurred with the rise of the cities in the 12th century, but I'm curious if it was later. Thank you
It's a relatively safe assumption to look towards the 12th century as this is when Europe is establishing not only cities but industries, it is also reasonable to say that the Italian peninsula is engaging in textile industry in the 11th century
Lovely! I Have made myself a medieval garment that i tried to model after mid european late 14th-early 15th century middle class Look, im not an expert And there arent Many experts around, just people talking in broad terms. This gives me some context And well, im glad My sense of The fashion of The Time was close enough i think
Yay it's the morning I can watch this 😆
Hooray time zone weirdness
Stuck through the two streams, 👍 although I was about 10 minutes behind in both. Needed to see the last part of the second stream. Sorry you guys had tech problems. There has been some bad storms moving across the us, and tornado watches in my area today. not sure where the servers for youtube are located, but that might have been part of the problem today.
Thanks for sticking through we just are not having luck with these live streams.. we have more planned but are going to try different software platforms.
Hope you are okay with the storms, stay safe.
I wanted to research sumptuary laws in the city I live in, but sadly, this city was so heavily destroyed and burned down during the 30 Years' War, that its name became a synonym for "to raze a city".
Nearly nothing of the medieval documents are left.
Oh no, that's a shame. So much lost from that period.
Oh, I feel your pain Magdeburgerin! My hometown burned down twice at the end of the medieval, and was plundered multiple times in the 3/4 of the 18th century :(. So having a look at the archives nearby is the way to I guess?
What would a secular priest (one that doesn’t belong to a regular order) wear in the 14th and 14th century?
This is a really good question, there is two kinds of distinct dress specific to the clergy, there are vestments to be worn during ceremony and mass and "daily wear" excluding monks, we tend to see long robes to the floor which are belted at the waist, long and short cloaks, they often go bare headed but records do mention black linen caps. Although the idea was modesty, this is not case as many priests accumulated significant wealth and openly displayed it.
@@PopulaUrbanum Thanks! I’m a Traditionalist Catholic, and about to enter the seminary, so I know about the liturgical vestments and their history, and also about the Religious Orders habits and their history, but I know little about daily wear for secular priests. Thanks for augmenting my knowledge a bit!
You are welcome, good luck with your studies at seminary.
Circa 04:00 onwards. I feel the need to disagree politely! At least in the context I know about ( German lands in the 15th & 16th centuries) citizenship isn't the same as living in the city. It is bound to a certain level of income and good fama of course. Therefore a great proportion of the people living in the city in the named context would not be a citizen. Is this new to you or did you generalize a bit to make it easier to understand?
No no, you are right there, we really don't deal with the early modern period when speaking about the cities. We also tend to generalise fairly heavily to get a short video. Sadly this means that we miss important information.
@@PopulaUrbanum When, in your personal understanding, does the early modern era ( or the era of the early modern city, if there should be a difference) begin? I thought it to begin roughly around 1500, varying of course in matter of region & specific context. Which timeframe would you say your videos/ this video are "valid" for ( sorry for persisting about this time thing! I'd like avoiding missorting, as it bears the danger of spreading misinformation. Especially in the sense of using information from the wrong time ( regarding individual displays, in my case the preparation for a male inhabitant of the lower Rhine area probably 2/4 15th cent of yet not further defined status or profession)
Understandably of course! Is there a chance of you making a video about social classes and the finer nuances of society and class ( or did I overlook it?)?
Thanks for answering!
@@PopulaUrbanum Circa 55:00 I'm nsure if it might be due to a difference in the local communities, but Dr Melanie Burgemeister @Faser und Stoff, who wrote her PhD Thesis about south German sumptuary laws, stated at a ( German) livestream, she'd see far too few richer clothes on burgers, especially silk should be used more she said. ( regarding ca 1470s). Or is this just a matter of time, in your opinion?
I'd also like to add, that in that time, just like you said, it was important to show on the outside, which status one had, so they at times spent even more then they had. What demonstrates this nicely is that in Frankfurt/ Main ( as far as I remember) the Bürger estimated their income themselves in order to pay taxes. First notion might be, nobody'd have paid taxes. But the individual tax levels were public. The Bürger didn't pay less but rather more, to show off, getting fama, I guess.
This is hard to say, drawing lines on dates is and applying them to periods is only helpful for categorizing. Though the 1500's is very certainly where the early modern is accepted to start. We really discuss the culture of Europe between 1250 - 1430 (ish) as we examine the rise of the Urban environment and the middle class. Our own impressions are from 1390 Ghent, and are in the slow transition from a pan European look. We have done one or two videos that have touched on class, but this is more discussing wealth and status. The urban environment tended to have more social exchange and less class systems. ( although again that is a really complex subject)
I am not in disagreement with this