What would be your goto source(s) for an introduction to 14th century dress and fashion in Scandinavia and North-West Europe?

by deVerence

Unfortunately, the AH booklist is ruefully thin on things like this.

Moffiker

For Sweden and Norway there is a dissertation in Swedish from 2006, "Kläderna och människan i medeltidens Sverige och Norge". It tries to describe society through clothes, by examining clothes in wills.

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It is perhaps not good as an introduction, since it does not contain any attempts to recreate a full dress. The pictures there are, are all taken from mediaeval manuscripts, or are simpler line drawings to describe the format of a garment. But it is a very interesting and thorough book.

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Since it is from 2006, there are probably some later books, but at least it is a start. What you can do, is to have a look at the bibliography at the end of it, and there should at least be something that might be of interest.

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Here's a link to an abstract.

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https://www.gu.se/forskning/publikation/?publicationId=34968

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And here's the dissertion in .pdf. The bibliography starts on page 370, or 366 in the book proper.

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https://gupea.ub.gu.se/bitstream/2077/16894/5/gupea_2077_16894_5.pdf

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