Greetings--
> 10) bursas de corio et corrigias: shoestrings seems to be the more
usually
> use of corrigiae, but as one listmember pointed out it may refer to
> tiestrings of the bursa. One would have to know something more of the
> fashion of the day: I do admit that it seems unlikely that silk would be
> used as a shoetring, on account of its delicacy, but perhaps the
> shoestrings had silk decorations attatched somehow, and thus I left it
> tentatively.
Extant shoes from the 13th and 14th century (there is an excellent Museum of
London book, _Shoes and Pattens_, that detail many of these) were not laced.
They were generally buckled with a strap (think modern "Mary Jane" style) or
closed with a toggle of some sort (attached with a leather thong). The
laced shoes we're familiar with are a considerably later innovation.
Susan
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