The Hugh Evelyn History of Costume: BC - AD 1500 (Fourth Series)

Unpaginated. Includes 20 color plates. Sets out to discover the origins of European costume and reveals how the barbaric dress of the Iron Age invaders of Greece became a distinctive Western style that persisted during Roman and Byzantine times, and due to the power of the Christian Church, on through the centuries of the Dark and Middle Ages. The Renaissance and the fierce competition between emerging nations, especially between Burgundy and France, brought more variety into costume.