self-made holidays

[ursula]

For Easter, I boiled a bunch of eggs. This morning, I tried to make an omelette.

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Medieval scholars' clothing

[holyschist.livejournal.com]

chemicallace suggested I ask you about medieval/Renaissance scholar's clothing. I'm mostly interested in the 16th century, but I would greatly appreciate any resources you could suggest.

Re: Medieval scholars' clothing

[ursula]

See if you can get your hands on a copy of:

W.N. Hargreaves-Mawdsley, A History of Academical Dress in Europe Until the End of the Eighteenth Century. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1963.

You can find a good chunk of it summarized in the pages starting here:

http://www.geocities.com/noelcox/Early_Academical_Dress.htm

and I could give you a fifteenth-century summary, but Hargreaves-Mawdsley is the obvious starting point.

Re: Medieval scholars' clothing

[holyschist.livejournal.com]

Ordered it--thanks so much! I was having trouble finding the right search terms.

Re: Medieval scholars' clothing

[ursula]

No problem-- I find it hard to believe "academical" is a word, myself.

Re: Medieval scholars' clothing

[holyschist.livejournal.com]

I'm not totally convinced by the argument that it needs to be a noun rather than an adjective.