Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance PeriodP. L. Jacob
Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period
P. L. Jacob
History
Book language: English
411 pages
A cultural history of manners, customs, and dress in medieval and Renaissance Europe, illustrated with many engravings and chromolithographs. Paul Lacroix (P. L. Jacob) surveys daily life, ceremonies, costume, and social habits, offering a rich background for understanding the period. It is worth listening to for its detailed picture of how people lived and presented themselves.
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Text source: gutenberg.org · The work is in the public domain.
Opening of the book
The Queen of Sheba before Solomon
The Queen of Sheba before Solomon
(Costume of 15th century.)
Fac-simile of a miniature from the Breviary of the Cardinal Grimani, attributed to Memling. Bibl. of S. Marc, Venice. (From a copy in the possession of M. Ambroise Firmin-Didot.)
The King inclines his sceptre towards the Queen indicating his appreciation of her person and her gifts; five ladies attend the Queen and five of the King's courtiers stand on his right hand.
Manners, Customs, and Dress
During the Middle Ages, and
During the Renaissance Period.
By Paul Lacroix
(Bibliophile Jacob),
Curator of the Imperial Library of the
Arsenal, Paris.
Illustrated with
Nineteen Chromolithographic Prints by F. Kellerhoven and upwards of
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