I had the opportunity
to visit my friend Mistress Katheryn Hindscroft last night, and found a couple of books
those of you doing Italian might be
interested in. Kat has a library to die for….
The first was a spectacular 6 volume series
called Storia del Costume in
Italia by R. Levi Pietsky, 1964,
Instituto Italiano. (the set costs about
my 10 year budget for books). You will want to look at volume 1 for 12th century information. It has the only
photograph I have seen of the entire purple
dalmatic from the HRE coronation
clothing. I put it on ILL immediately!
Nancy, you might like “The Mosaics of
Norman Sicily” by Otto Demus,
Hacker Art Books, 1988, ISBN 0-87817-310-2. It has a nice selection of art that I hadn’t seen before, and you
might find
something of interest.
~ Katrine / Katherine
Barich
Message #768, January 31, 2003