Shoes and Pattens (Medieval Finds from Excavations in London, 2)

History books for nerds who love the details. This is essentially “hey look at the stuff we found in the Thames” but I love how detailed and how descriptive it gets. I have dabbled in shoemaking and I love the construction diagrams as well as the history lesson. Great for costumers.

Excellent book, many pictures, good description.

This book does an EXCELLENT job of covering all the information that you'd want about shoes, there patterns, and all the data from the early 12th to 15th century. I give it four stars ONLY because I'd hoped for some 9th and 10th century information, otherwise, it's a 5-star. Find a shoe you need and enlarge it to your size, cut, and sew!!

A great work. It is the best I have read so far about historic shoes. It is a great material for people who are into renacment, and medieval recreation, or even just for investigarors readers. A complet work taht takes you long way in time to understand the way things have been made, and with some logic onterpretation, the way the things are now a days thanx to this kind of research work. A most have for people into medieval recreation, and renactmen.

One of the best sources for research. Put this with "Stepping Through Time" to have an excellent library. Must have.

Fantastic book! Lots of history about the London finds!

Great book, very informative.

This is the third book I bought from this series and it just makes me want to go on buying the other ones to learn more about the Middle Ages. This book too, is not just an inventory of what was found and what the items look like, it is much more : the art of shoemaking and cobbling is described, there are references to art and literature and - for me by far the most interesting chapter - the social inferences of wear and tear are discussed. At the back of the book there are (very) short summaries in French and German and as always there is an extensive bibliography. If you are into re-enacting, this book will not provide you with actual patterns, so it is not really a 'practical' book, but the bakground information is priceless.