Skan

Contents

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Acknowledgements    vi

Introduction to second edition    vii

Introduction    1

Recording methods, archive and conventions used in the report    7

Shoes from London sites, 1100-1450    9

early 12th century - later 12łh century - early/mid 13th century - late 13th and early 14th centuńes - mid 14th century - late 14th century - early 15th century

Shoemaking and cobbling    44

the leather - shoemaking - stitching and seams - soles and rand - cutting patterns óf uppers - buckles and other fittings - decoration (embroidery (by Frances Pritchard), openwork, incised and engraved) - toe stuffing (by Alan Eddy) - repairs and reuse

Pattens    91

wooden pattens, 12th-15th-centuńes - leather pattens, 14th-15th centuńes

Sizes and wear patterns: social inferences    102

sizes - wear patterns and deformities of the feet

Shoes in art and literaturę    112

pidońal and literary parallels - status - women ’s and children ’s shoes

Glossary    123

List of figures and concordance    126

Appendices

(1)    The excavations    131

(2)    Conservation (by Katharine Starling)    137

Bibliography    140

Summaries in French and German    143