Books and Magazines

• So Ye Want To Be A Reenactor - by Brenton C. Kemmer, Karen L. Kemmer Read a review

• German Single Leaf Woodcuts, 1500 -1550 Vol 1-3, 1550-1600 Vol 1-4

• Pictorial Archive of Decorative Renaissance Woodcuts - by Jost Amman

• Osprey's Men-at-Arms Series
  • #058 Landsknechts Read a review
  • #136 Italian Medieval Armies 1300-1500
  • #191 Henry VIII's Army
  • #310 German Medieval Armies 1000-1300

• Osprey's Military Campaign Series
  • #44 Pavia 1525

• Osprey's Warrior Series
  • #49 Landsknecht Soldier 1486–1560

• Worldly Goods: A New History of the Renaissance - by Lisa Jardine

• The English Housewife - by Gervase Markham

• Campfollowing: A History of the Military Wife - Betty Sowers Alt and Bonnie Domrose Stone, Praeger Paperback. New York. 1991.

• The Holy Roman Empire 1495-1806 (Studies in European History) - Peter H. Wilson, Palgrave Macmillan (October 1999)

• The Midwives Book: Or the Whole Art of Midwifry Discovered - Jane Sharp (written in the early 17th Century)

• The Art and Ritual of Childbirth in Renaissance Italy - by Jacqueline Marie Musacchio, Jacqueline Marie Musacchio

• Durer: Master Draftsman of the Renaissance--His Life in Paintings - Albrecht Durer, Stefano Zuffi (March 1, 1999) DK Publishing

• German Sculpture of the Later Renaissance, c. 1520-1580 - Jeffrey Chipps Smith (June 1994) Princeton Univ Press

• Handbook of Renaissance Ornament - by Albert F. Butsch

• Music in the German Renaissance: Sources, Styles, and Contexts - John Kmetz (Editor) (November 1994) Cambridge Univ Press

• Views of Rome, Then and Now - by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, HershelLevit

• Dürer’s Record of Journeys to Venice and the Low Countries - by Albrecht Dürer

• A History of Private Life III: Passions of the Renaissance by Roger Chartier (Editor), et al

• The Marriage Exchange: Property, Social Place, and Gender in Cities of the Low Countries, 1300-1500 - by Martha C. Howell

• The Medieval Soldier's World; 15th Century Campaign Life Recreated in Color Photographs - by Gary Embleton, John Howe (Contributor), John Houe

• Peasants, Warriors and Wives: Popular Imagery in the Reformation - by Keith Moxey

• To see some of our favorite period cookbooks check out our Cooking page.

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• Costume (Eyewitness Books) - L. Rowland-Warne (1992) Alfred A. Knopf, NY Read a review

• A Tudor Medicine Chest (Look Inside) - Brian Moses (1997) Wayland Publishers, Ltd., East Sussex, UK Read a review

• Renaissance Fashions Coloring Book- Tom Tierney

• Catherine, Called Birdy - Karen Cushman (May 1995) HarperTrophy Read a review

• The Midwife's Apprentice - Karen Cushman (September 1996) HarperTrophy

• A Medieval Feast - Aliki (September 1986) HarperTrophy Read a review

• "Smelly Old History: Scratch N Sniff Your Way Through the Past" series, Oxford Univ Press Read a review

• "How Would You Survive in the Middle Ages: How Would You Survive" series - Fiona MacDonald (March 1997) Franklin Watts, Incorporated

• Knight - by Christopher Gravett

• Arms & Armor - by Michele Byam, Eyewitness Books

• Patterns of Fashion: The Cut and Construction of Clothes for Men and Women C1560-1620 - Janet Arnold (August 1985) Drama Publishers

• Authentic Everyday Dress of the Renaissance: All 154 Plates from the 'Trachtenbuch' - Christoph Weiditz, Christopher Weiditz (July 1994) Dover Pub.

• Vecellio's Renaissance Costume Book : All 500 Woodcut Illustrations from the Famous Sixteenth-Century Compendium of World Costume - Cesare, Vecellio (January 1978) Dover Publications

• Tudor Costume and Fashion - Herbert Norris (November 1997) Dover Publications

• The Silk Industry of Renaissance Venice - Luca Mola (April 2000) Johns Hopkins Univ Press

• Italian Renaissance Textile Designs - Delores Andrew (May 1986) Stemmer House Publishers

• Elizabethan Treasures : The Hardwick Hall Textiles - Santina M. Levey (October 1998) Harry N Abrams

• Blackwork - Mary Gostelow (May 1998) Dover Publications

• The History Of Costume By Braun & Schneider - c.1861-1880 - This is a good book, though it's not 100% accurate. It was written in the late 1800's and that influence is quite visible. You can even read it online.

• Renaissance Patterns for Lace, Embroidery, and Needlepoint - by Federico Vinciolo

• A History of Jewellery 1100-1870 - by Joan Evans

• A History of Hand Knitting - by Richard Rutt

• Shoes and Patterns - by Museum of London, et al

• Corsets and Crinolines - by Norah Waugh

• 20,000 Years of Fashion: The History of Costume and Personal Adornment - by Francois Leon Louis Boucher

• A Second Look at the Big Squeeze: Were corsets -- or even foot-binding -- really so bad? - By Jennifer K. Ruark. Article from the Nov. 23, 2001 issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education.

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• Renaissance Armor: 24 Full-Color Cards - by John Batchelor

• Arms & Armor: The Cleveland Museum of Art - by Stephen N. Fliegel

• A Glossary of the Construction, Decoration and Use of Arms and Armor in All Countries and in All Times Together With Some Closely Related Subjects - by George Cameron Stone

• German Swords AND Sword Makers: Edged Weapon Makers From The 14^th To The 20^th Centuries - by Richard H. Bezdek

• Renaissance Swordsmanship: The Illustrated Use of Rapiers and Cut-And-Thrust Swords - by John Clements

• The Martial Arts of Renaissance Europe - by Sydney Anglo

• Medireview Combat: A Fifteenth-Century Illustrated Manual of Swordfighting and Close-Quarter Combat - by Hans Talhoffer, Mark Rector, John Clements

• The Secret History of the Sword - by J Christopher Amberger

• The Armourer and His Craft - From the XIth to the XVIth Century - by Charles FFoulkes (1988) Dover Publishing

• European Weapons and Armour: From the Renaissance to the Industrial Revolution - by R. Ewart Oakeshott

• Techniques of Medieval Armour Reproduction: The 14th Century - by Brian Price

• The Art of Making Armour - by Robert Valentine

• A Record of European Armour & Arms Through Seven Centuries - by Guy F. Laking, Baron De Cosson (Introduction)

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• The Honest Courtesan: Veronica Franco, Citizen and Writer in Sixteenth-Century Venice (Women in Culture and Society) - by Margaret F. Rosenthal, Catharine R. Stimpson

• The Burgermeister's Daughter: Scandal in a Sixteenth-Century German Town - by Steven Ozment Read a review

• The Prospect Before Her: A History of a Woman in Western Europe 1500-1800 (Series) - by Olwen H. Hufton

• A History of Women in the West: Renaissance and Enlightenment Paradoxes - by Georges Duby (Editor), Michelle Perrot (Editor), Arlette Farge (Editor), Natalie Z. Davis (Editor)

• Women of the Renaissance (Women in Culture and Society Series) - by Margaret L. King, Catharine R. Stimpson

• Collected Letters of a Renaissance Feminist (Other Voice in Early Modern Europe) - by Laura Cereta, Diana Robin (Editor)

• With Faith and Physic: The Life of a Tudor Gentlewoman, Lady Grace Mildmay, 1552-1620 - by Linda Pollock