British costume during XIX centuries (civil and ecclesiastical) (1910)
Ashdown, Charles H., Mrs · London and Edinburgh : T. C. & e. c. Jack · leaf 58
heir waists*, THE SAXON PERIOD, c. 460 to 1066 23 The full-length figures of Canute and his Queen Alfgyfeare reproduced from the manuscript Register of HydeAbbey (Fig. 24); the only noteworthy feature with regardto the King is the way in which the mantle is fastened by acord having two large… … Fig. 27.—Anglo-Saxons at dinner. (Cott. MS. Tiberius C vi.) witnessed the introduction into England of the Normanstyle of dress by many of those attending his court, and weknow it to be one of the principal causes of the disaffectionwhich prevailed throughout the country among the Saxonnobility.…
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