The Book of Historic Fashion

The Late Middle Ages (c.1350-1500) provides us with many of our stock, childhood images of the "Middle Ages": the knight in shining armour, the joust, lords and ladies dressed in rich, voluminous robes and elegant dresses. Yet it is a paradox, for at the start of the period, Europe had endured the worst pandemic of recorded history: the Black Death, the climate was rapidly cooling, causing massive...