By Francis Grew, Margrethe de Neergaard, Susan Mitford (illustrations)

Till lately, little or no used to be identified approximately medieval sneakers. Glimpses in manuscript illustrations and on funerary monuments, with the occasional reference by way of a modern author, was once all that the gown historian had as proof, no longer least simply because leather-based has a tendency to perish after lengthy touch with air, and intensely few real examples survived. in recent times, notwithstanding, approximately 2,000 footwear, many whole and in near-perfect situation, were came across preserved at the north financial institution of the Thames, and are actually housed within the Museum of London. This assortment, all from well-dated archaeological contexts, fills this colossal hole in wisdom, making it attainable to chart exactly the development of shoe model among the 12th and 15th centuries.

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