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Dresses and decorations of the Middle Ages (1843)

Shaw, Henry, 1800-1873, William Pickering (Firm) · London : William Pickering · leaf 135

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e of the chaptersof an old French medical treatise, the subject of whichchapter is the diseases of women subsequent to child-birth. The doctor is examining the breast of the patient. In the humorous figureabove, the illuminator has amused himself with a little satire against themonkish orders, as… … LADIES ELAYIH© QIT THE BAJLP & ORGAN. Shaw LADIES PLAYING ON THE HARP AND ORGAN. OSTUME, in the west of Europe, duringthe thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, wasnot strikingly characteristic of differenceof countries; its changes were frequent,and often remarkable, but the intercoursebetween…

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