Book Reviews

Here are a lot of book reviews
( A Bitter Living: Women, Markets, and Social Capital in Early Modern Germany )

( Shopping in the Renaissance: Consumer Cultures in Italy, 1400-1600  )

( Landsknechte und Reisläufer: Bilder vom Soldaten. Ein Stand in der Kunst des 16. Jahrhunderts. )

( Peasants, Warriors, and Wives: Popular Imagery in the Reformation )

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Building a research library on the topic of 16th century Germany

Building a library on a particular topic can be expensive, just ask me! I've made plenty of buying mistakes and often wish that there had been someone to tell me how to get started in building a physical library around the topic of 16th century Germany specifically geared towards recreating clothing. Of course there are additional books I could recommend for more specific areas of interest, but for a general "Get you started" library, this would be a good start.

There are aslo lots of online resources for German clothing research, but I'll cover those in another post.

Total Cost for this library? Around $250 plus shipping and handling.
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