[MR] [Books from Gotlands Fornsal]

[rmhowe]

Thought the information might be of use to some of you.

Books you may care to order from Gotlands Fornsal/Gotland County
Museum. Gotland is a large island in the Baltic Sea, east of Sweden,
and was a major trading center between the Baltic countries until
King Valdemar Atterdag conquered Visby in 1361. It's also where
80% of the Viking Antiquities come from. The following
are all in English. Not particularly Viking, mostly post Viking
actually.

If you wish to order the following books from their webpage:
http://www.gotmus.i.se/1engelska/1.htm
contact lansmuseet at gotmus.i.se  
They take credit cards btw.

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Gateway to Gotland 
Marita Jonsson, Sven-Olof Lindquist 
Price SEK 200 
Contains pictures of the medieval buildings on Gotland - Visby 
for example.

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Treasures – Gotland
Gotlands Fornsal
Price SEK 50 
This is the book on the various jewelry/treasures left in the 
Gotlands Fornsal and some of the hoards (which have not been 
removed to the Swedish mainland museums.) English Translation 
of the Skatter book on their homepage. Rather small but interesting.

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Medieval Manner of Dress
Documents, Images and Surviving Examples of Northern Europe, 
Emphasizing Gotland in the Baltic Sea by Else Marie Gutarp, 
Lansmuseet pa Gotland/County Museum of Gotland, 2001. 
www.gotmus.i.se  Price SEK 200 (roughly ten cents to the Kronor).
ISSN 1101-0630  ISBN 911-88036-43-X Translated into English.

This is a new 108 page book on the historical dress of northern
europe, and that dress particular to Gotland. Some of it is 
recreations from remaining materials, the recreations are often 
in colour with real people wearing them. Some of these are
recreated from sculpture, paintings, illuminations, or surviving
textiles.

Index of book:
Foreword 5.
Medieval Dress Practices 6-25 men's, women's and childrens dress,
	Shifts (camisia) and other under garments.
Accessories 26-40 Hairstyle and headdress, shoes, gloves and mittens,
	belts and girdles, purses and pouches, jewelry, buttons,
	brooches, and clasps; rings for engagements and weddings;
	spectacles. Includes molds for accessories and sewing 		implements.
Materials and techniques 41-57 Wool, Wasmal, cloth, finishing, linen
	and hemp, cotton, silk, velvet, spinning, weaving, bands,
	braids and ribbons, other textile techniques, dyeing and
	printing; seams, embroidery, scissors, needles and thimbles.
Surviving cloth from Scandinavia 58-65 Bocksten Man's Tunic, 
	the Herjolfnes finds, The Golden Gown of Queen Margaret.
Clothing represented in Gotlands's Medieval Church Art 66-83.
	The Churches speak, the Martebo Servant Woman, the Stanga
	Servant Woman, the Martebo shepherd, the Master Builder of St.
	Mary's Cathedral, Visby; Elizabeth in Burs; the Clothing of 
	Jacob in Stenkyrka; the Oja Man, Adam and Eve in Hejde.
Church, Monastery, and Pilgrims 84-101  Everyday clothing of a priest;
	a Bishops vestments; The liturgical colors; Liturgical 
	vestments; the parts of the liturgical vestments; Monasteries;
	Dress of the religious orders; Franciscan friars; Poor Clares;
	Dominican friars; Dominican nuns; Cistercian monks and nuns;
	Brigittine order, nuns and monks; Pilgrim's Dress, Angels;
	Jesters.
Literature Citations: 101-5. These are fairly good.
Sources of Illustrations 106-7.
Diagrammed Cutting Patterns 108-9. (Leaves a lot to be conjectured.)

While this is a small book covering a wide area, it's very well
illustrated, often in color. Hardback. Worth the modest price.
Contains a lot of things not seen in other costume books.

For the leatherworkers - two pages on shoes, depicting thirteen
styles and a patten, One page on gloves and mittens depicting 
fingered gloves (reserved for the nobility), a leather work mitten,
and a Nalbinding mitten from Asle. One page on belts and girdles
containing pictures of unusual buckles (trust me on this), One page
on purses and pouches depicting five examples.

Oh, yes, for those of you who like to teach classes in medieval
underwear, there are 4 pages on shifts and undergarments with a
number of illustrations. No specific diagrams though. Regulations
included.
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Master Magnus Malleus, OL
© 2001 R.M. Howe
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