By Ruth A. Johnston
All issues Medieval: An Encyclopedia of the Medieval World covers the widest definition of "medieval Europe" attainable, no longer by means of masking background within the conventional, textbook demeanour of directory wars, leaders, and critical ancient occasions, yet through providing exact alphabetical entries that describe the artifacts of medieval Europe. via analyzing the hidden fabric tradition and through proposing information regarding subject matters that few books cover—pottery, locks and keys, sneakers, weaving looms, barrels, toys, pets, ink, kitchen utensils, and masses more—readers get valuable insights into the character of existence in the course of that point interval and area.
The heartland eu areas reminiscent of England, France, Italy, and Germany are coated commonly, and data concerning the gadgets of areas resembling Byzantium, Muslim Spain, and Scandinavia also are integrated. for every subject of fabric tradition, the access considers the total scope of the medieval period—roughly 500-1450—to provide the reader a historic standpoint of similar traditions or innovations and describes the craftsmen and instruments that produced it.
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Both these Irish scripts came to England, influenced Anglo-Saxon manuscripts, and then were copied in other European monasteries. 9 The Luttrell family’s psalter, one of the best-preserved illustrated manuscripts, uses the 15th-century Gothic script. It was a minuscule script, although letters that started lines or sentences were often large and decorated. The lower loop of a G was closed, not open, in the Gothic; R was drawn in an abbreviated form; S was a straight line within a word, but at a word’s end it appeared as an angled curve similar to a modern S.
See also: Crusades, Horses, Iron, Knights, Tournaments, Weapons. Further Reading Bouchard, Constance Brittain, ed. Knights in History and Legend. Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2009. Edge, David, and John Miles Paddock. Arms and Armor of the Medieval Knight: An Illustrated History of Medieval Weaponry. New York: Crescent Books, 1993. Fliegel, Stephen. Arms and Armor. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2008. 32 Arthur, King Nicolle, David. Arms and Armour of the Crusading Era, 1050–1350. 2 vols.
The British Library/StockphotoPro) Armor The mail maker worked with a dummy like a dressmaker’s. The dummy had a head and shoulders, at least, so he could shape the fit of the rings around these surfaces. The mail across the chest and back did not need to be carefully shaped, but a mail hood, and mail shoulders and arms, had to fit properly. Mail makers probably used written patterns that told them how many rings to put in each row and how to link the rings for the proper shape, but no patterns or guild treatises on the craft survived.