A guide to the Mediaeval Room and to the specimens of mediaeval and later times in the gold ornament room : with fourteen plates and a hundred and ninety-four illustrations (1907)
British Museum. Dept. of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography, Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945, Read, Charles Hercules, Sir, 1857-1929 · [London] : Printed by order of the Trustees · leaf 90
h sleeves. This was replaced in England about 1325by the cijclas, laced at the sides and much shorter in front thanbehind. This was a fashion of short duration, and by the middleof the century the surcoat falling to the knees was in common use.In the latter part of the century came in the short… … J/. garment over the armour had grown less usual, but down toa.d. 1450 a very short surcoat called a tabard was worn inEngland. Shields in Norman times were long, rounded at the top, andpointed at the bottom ( kite-shaped). But in the twelfth cen-tury they were already ap-proximating to a…
British Museum. Dept. of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography · Art objects · Art, Medieval
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