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medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture You might try: Maria *Hayward**Rich apparel:* *clothing and the law in Henry VIII's England /* 2009 *English* Book Book xxiv, 422 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub. Co., ; ISBN: 9780754640967 <http://xisbn.worldcat.org:80/liblook/resolve.htm?res_id=http://www.iris.rutgers.edu&rft.isbn=0754640965&url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book> (alk. paper) 0754640965 <http://xisbn.worldcat.org:80/liblook/resolve.htm?res_id=http://www.iris.rutgers.edu&rft.isbn=0754640965&url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book> (alk. paper) Tom Izbicki John Briggs wrote: > medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture > > ---- Madeleine Gray <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >> >> 2. I think it's possible that some of the figures are bedesmen from the >> funeral procession and that one is one of the poor men given gowns to walk in >> the procession. This is of course a common feature in late medieval wills and >> funerals - but does anyone know of any specific descriptions of the kind of >> robes they were given? The figure we are looking at has quite an elaborate >> robe with buttons down the front and nice buttoned sleeves, but he's barefoot. >> > > I think it's not so much how elaborate the robes were as the quality and quantity of the cloth. > > At the funeral obsequies of the Queen of Spain [Joanna the Mad] at St Paul's in June 1555, gowns for 120 poor men cost £125 18s 4d. The official mourners were issued with their livery as cloth (and presumably had it made up themselves!): the chief mourner got 16 yards and his two pages only 4 yards between them. The total cost of 510 yards was £363 8s. (Calendar of State Papers, Mary I, pp.100-101.) > > John Briggs > > ********************************************************************** > To join the list, send the message: join medieval-religion YOUR NAME > to: [log in to unmask] > To send a message to the list, address it to: > [log in to unmask] > To leave the list, send the message: leave medieval-religion > to: [log in to unmask] > In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: > [log in to unmask] > For further information, visit our web site: > http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/medieval-religion.html > ********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: join medieval-religion YOUR NAME to: [log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it to: [log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the message: leave medieval-religion to: [log in to unmask] In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: [log in to unmask] For further information, visit our web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/medieval-religion.html