I just finished a book entitled Mysteries of the Middle Ages by Thomas Cahill. I gave it as a gift once and it seemed interesting, so I bought a copy for myself as well
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Now I'm torn between wanting to read it and not wanting to bother. ;-)
The two books I am currently working my way through are one you probably won't be interested in, and one you might. The first one is Penelope Roger's Cloth And Clothing in Early Anglo-Saxon England, AD 450-700, the second is C.M. Woolgar's The Senses in Late Medieval England. It's really quite fascinating.
It is worth the read -- there was a lot of info in there I hadn't come across before, and as long as you know his biases, they aren't that intrusive until the end.
The first one sounds like it would interest me a lot.
Roger's book is a technical analysis of the archaeological textiles dating from the title period, so you'll get thread counts and the direction the warp yarn was spun vs. the weft yarn, plus dyes used and textile creation techniques.
It's just as fascinating as the Woolgar, but if I read too much of it at once I am tempted to go play with textiles Right Now, which is not conducive to getting anything else done. Especially sleep.
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The two books I am currently working my way through are one you probably won't be interested in, and one you might. The first one is Penelope Roger's Cloth And Clothing in Early Anglo-Saxon England, AD 450-700, the second is C.M. Woolgar's The Senses in Late Medieval England. It's really quite fascinating.
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The first one sounds like it would interest me a lot.
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It's just as fascinating as the Woolgar, but if I read too much of it at once I am tempted to go play with textiles Right Now, which is not conducive to getting anything else done. Especially sleep.
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