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I've organized this sitemap to suit the general categories of linkspages that appear on the part of this site dealing with the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Articles marked with an asterisk are posted to other websites.

Animals

• Birdcages
• Beehives
• Bonnacons
• Catching butterflies
• Camels
• Cats
• Chickens
• Dog collars & leashes
• Elephants
• Giraffes
• Hedgehogs
• Mousetraps
• Ostriches
• Pelicans
• Porcupines
• Sheep-shearing
• Squirrels
• Trained bears
• Unicorns

Arts & Industries

• Archers
• Archery quivers and arrow cases
• Archery targets
• Construction
• Watermills & windmills
• Sailors
• English-language index to the trades in Das Ständebuch

Agriculture

• Harrows
• Ploughs
• Seed-sowers
• Sheep-shearing
• Shepherds

Artists & craftsmen

• Coopers
• Glassworkers
• Glaziers
• Illuminators & illustrators
• Joiners
• Painters & limners
• Parchment-makers
• Potters
• Saddlers
• Sculptors
• Shoemakers
• Tanners
• Wheelwrights

Education & literacy

• Bookbinders
• Inkwells & inkhorns
• Penners
• Schools & teachers
• Scribes, scriveners, and their tools
• Waxed tablets

Entertainment

• Acrobats
• Commedia dell'Arte
• Dancers
• Fools & jesters
• Jugglers
• Musicians
• Oliphants
• Plate-spinners
• Singers
• Stilt-Walkers
• Taverns & alehouses
• Trained bears

Gastronomy

• Bakers
• Beer-brewers
• Cheesemakers
• Cooks & kitchens
• Fishermen
• Hunters
• Pretzels
• Spits
• Sugar
• Taverns & alehouses
• Trammel chains and hooks

Medicine

• Apothecaries
• Crutches & canes
• Doctors, physicians, surgeons, dentists, & quacks
• Eyeglasses & spectacles
• Lepers

Metalwork

• Anvils
• Armorers
• Blacksmiths
• Bellows
• Coining, coin-minting, & coin dies
• Cutlers and knife-makers
• Goldsmiths & jewellers
• Grindstones for knife-sharpening
• Nails & nailsmiths
• Wire-drawers

Textile

• Shearing wool
• Carding & combing wool
• Drapers
• Embroiderers
• Fingerloop braiding
• Furriers
• Hatmakers
• Lacemakers
• Laundry & launderers
• Net-making
• Sewing kits, seamstresses, & tailors
• Spinning
• Weaving & looms
• Winding thread & yarn; includes niddy-noddies, bobbin-winders, and reels

Trade

• Cheesemongers
• Drapers
• Fishmongers
• Furriers
• Merchants’ booths
• Merchants’ stalls
• Peddlers, hawkers, itinerant tradesmen, & street-vendors
• Weighing, scales, balances, & weights

Book Arts

• Books of hours and the labors of the seasons
• Girdlebooks
• Rolls of Arms

Clothing & Accessories

• Index to Medieval Clothing and Textiles
• Clothing with blackwork embroidery
• Clothing worn by the blind
• Dagged clothing
• Clothing worn by hermits
• Inside-out clothing
• Lacing rings
• Ladies’ embroidered jackets in the 16th & 17th centuries
• Knit garments
• Nalebound garments
• Particolored clothing
• Patched Clothing
• Pilgrims’ clothing
• Tippets & Sleeve Streamers
• Romani (Gypsy) clothing
• Wedding dresses

Accessories

• Aprons
• Belts & girdles
• Plaque belts
• Wide belts (“Brode harnysed girdilles”)
• Eyeglasses & spectacles
• Fans
• Garters
• Gloves & mittens
• Hairpins
• Handkerchiefs
• Masks
• Masks: Vizards & Invisories
• Pomanders
• Ruffs and falling collars
• Zibellini

Bags

• Shepherds’ budgets
• Pilgrims’ scrips
• Pouches & purses
• Framed Purses
• Drawstring Pouches
• Saddlebags
• Sweetbags
• Wallets & shoulder-sacks

Children & motherhood

• Bibs for babies
• Medieval children’s clothing
• Renaissance children’s clothing
• Maternity clothes
• Slings for carrying infants

Footwear

• Hose
• Ice Skates
• Pattens
• Shoes

Headwear

• Beaded-edge veils
• The “St. Birgitta Cap” and related medieval women’s coifs
• Bycockets (the Robin Hood hat)
• Chaperons
• Frilled veils, goffered veils, ruffled veils, kruseler, etc.
• Ladies’ coifs in the 16th and 17th centuries
• Men’s coifs
• Hoods
• Gentlemen's nightcaps
• Tailed caps and related late 15th century women’s coifs
• Straw hats

Jewelry

• Beaded necklaces
• Collars of orders of knighthood, and livery collars
• Earrings
• Hair-pins
• Hat badges
• Pendants
• Pins
• Early medieval rings (6th-10th centuries)
• High medieval rings (11th-13th centuries)
• Late medieval rings (14th-15th centuries)
• Renaissance rings (16th-17th centuries)
• Poesy rings, memento mori rings, and other inscribed rings
• Signet rings
• Rosaries & paternosters

Outerwear

• Cloaks
• Gardecorps
• Hoods
• Loose gowns
• Women’s sleeveless surcoats

Undergarments

• Breeches & braies
• Hose
• Shirts (for men)
• Smocks (for women)

Literary references to clothing and accessories

• Garments & armor in The Canterbury Tales
• Garments in the works of Henryson
• Garments in the Paston Letters

Containers

• Baskets
• Buckets
• Canteens, costrels, & flasks
• Cases
• Cupboards
• Sacks

Boxes, caskets, and coffers

• Bone & ivory boxes
• Enamel boxes
• Illustrations of boxes
• Leather-covered boxes
• Metal boxes
• Bentwood boxes
• Carved wooden boxes
• Wooden boxes with decorative inlay
• Lacquered boxes
• Wooden boxes with decorative metal mounts
• Painted wooden boxes
• Velvet-covered wooden boxes
• Cassoni
• Chests & trunks
• Embroidered caskets from 17th century England

Embroidery & Needlework

• Karen’s Embroidery Library
• Appliqué
• Beadwork
• Cross Stitch Embroidery in the Middle Ages and Renaissance*
• Gloves & mittens
• Handkerchiefs
• Ladies’ jackets
• Klosterstickerei (a style of narrative embroidery used for wall-hangings in the late Middle Ages and Renaissance)
• Gentlemen’s nightcaps
• Designing your own Oxburgh-style embroidery
• Embroidered coifs
• Samplers
• Voided work and Assisi work

Furniture & domestic material culture

• Brooms
• Carpets
• Chests & trunks
• Cupboards
• Gardens
• Hourglasses
• Keychains & keyrings
• Padlocks
• Prie-dieux
• Shovels
• Trestle tables
• Tablets
• Windows of crown glass/bullseye glass

Games & Pastimes

• Dolls
• Ball games
• Board games
• Card games
• Dice games
• Rattles
• Snowballs
• Stilts
• Swimming
• Toy knights
• Toys
• Water Jousting
• Wrestling

Hygiene & Hairstyles

• Baths
• Beards
• Combs & hair-combing
• Mirrors
• Cutting hair
• Dressing & styling hair

Lighting

• Candleholders
• Lamps
• Lanterns
• Leuchterweibchen & Lüsterweibchen
• Torches

Seating

• Benches
• Chairs
• Settles

Sleeping

• Beds
• Bedcovers
• Cradles

Gastronomical Material Culture

• Trestle tables

"Feast Gear": Scenes of meals and feasts, and related material culture

• Feast gear in Antiquity
• Early medieval feast gear (6th-10th centuries)
• High medieval feast gear (11th-13th centuries)
• Late medieval feast gear (14th-15th centuries)
• Renassance feast gear (16th-17th centuries
• Where to get replica feast gear

Table Textiles

• Damask linen tablecloths & napkins
• Perugia tablecloths
• Perugia towels and napkins
• Table carpets

Table Utensils

• Cutlery (forks & knives)
• Spoons

Tools

• Bakers’ molds
• Bellows
• Butter-churns
• Cauldrons & pots
• Flesh hooks
• Kitchens
• Ovens
• Gridirons & grills
• Spits
• Trammel hooks
• Wafer irons
• Winepresses

Vessels & Tafelaufsatzen

• Aquamaniles
• Beakers
• Canteens, costrels, & flasks
• Enamelled glassware
• Ewers
• Flagons
• Lusterware
• Mazers
• Nefs
• Ostrich-egg cups
• Pitchers & jugs
• Saltcellars
• Table-fountains

Maiolica

• Maiolica arcaica
• Zaffera a rilievo
• Stile severo
• Stile bello
• Stile istoriato
• Belle Donne

Crime and punishment

• Pirates
• Stocks & pillories

Tournaments, Knighthood, and Armory

• Banners & flags
• Caparisons
• Crests
• Enclosures & list-fences
• Galleries
• Heralds
• Knighting ceremonies
• Livery
• Men’s heraldic surcoats
• Pavilion construction
• Painted shields
• Quintains
• Trumpet-banners
• Women in armor
• Women riding astride

Vehicles

• Handbarrows
• Litters
• Rowboats
• Sleds
• Sleighs
• Stretchers & Biers
• Wagons
• Wheelbarrows
• Wheelwrights

Libraries & Bibliographies

• Karen’s Embroidery Library
• Gruffudd’s Culinary Library
• Kids’ books on life in the Middle Ages & Renaissance

Articles on research & writing

• Documentation is Not a Dirty Word
• Ten simple things you can do to impress the judges at an Arts and Sciences competition
• Using the internet for research and documentation
• Navigating BNF Mandragore (for the non-French speaker)

Onomastics articles

• Basque Onomastics of the Eighth to Sixteenth Centuries
• Bynames from 15th Century York*
• An Index to the 1296 Lay Subsidy Rolls for Rutland, England*
• An Index to the 1523 Subsidy Roll for York and Ainsty, England*

Miscellaneous articles

• A translation of the Manual de mugeres en el qual se contienen muchas y diversas reçeutas muy buenas
• Inventories of New Year's Gifts for Queen Elizabeth
• Patient Griselda: Literature and Illustrations
• Tales from the Decameron: Providing literary context for 15th century illustrations
• From Unboring^® to Anachronistic: An IKEA^® Toybox with Medieval-Inspired Decoration
• Other links to other websites on medieval material culture
• Karen’s SCA Résumé
• Free Cross Stitch Patterns