A collection of locally-owned or available resources for a variety of Medieval and Renaissance topics. Resources are listed with call numbers for Ames Public Library (APL) or Iowa State University Libraries (ISU), if they are available. If members of the populace own a copy, those people are listed in the last column (if they choose to be listed publicly).
| Title | Author | Publisher/Date | Description | APL | ISU | Members who own a copy |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dress in the Middle Ages | F. Piponnier & P. Mane; translated by C. Beamish | Yale Univ. Press, 1997 | GT575 P5613 1997 | |||
| Tudor Tailor | N. Mikhaila & J. Malcom-Davies | Costume & Fashion Press, 2006 | Well-researched, illustrated guide to creating authentic 16th C. costume. | 391 MIK 2006 | GT734 M55x 2006 | |
| The Medieval Tailor's Assistant: making common garments, 1200-1500 | S. Thursfield | Costume & Fashion Press, 2001 | good illustrations of who wore which garments and when | GT575 T58x 2001 | ||
| Velvet: history, techniques, fashion | F. de' Marinis, ed. ; English translation A. Shugaar | Idea Books, 1994 | NK8906 V4513 1994b | |||
| Dress in Anglo-Saxon England, rev. ed. | Gail Owen-Crocker | Boydell Press, 2004 | GT372 O94 2004 | |||
| Medieval Dress & Fashion | Margaret Scott | British Library, 2007 | Illustrations from manuscripts in the British Library collection; text covers years circa 840 to 1570 C.E. | GT575 S36x 2007 | ||
| Visual history of costume: the 16th Century | Jane Ashelford | Batsford, 1983 | part of a series | 391 ASH 1983 | GT733 V57 1983 v. | |
| Hispanic Costume: 1480-1530 | Ruth Matilda Anderson | The Hispanic Society of America, 1979 | *THE* book about late(ish) period Spanish garb. | |||
| Medieval Clothing and Textiles, vol. 1-7 | G. Owen-Crocker & R. Netherton, eds. | Boydell Press, 2005- | published annually; 8-10 articles on various topics; interesting info not covered elsewhere | GT575 M4354x | ||
| History of costume: from the ancient Egyptians to the 20th century | Blanche Payne | Harper & Row, 1965 | Ch. 6-13 deal with the SCA period. | 391 PAY | GT510 P292h | |
| Dressing Renaissance Florence : families, fortunes, and fine clothing | Carole Collier Frick | Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2002 | Cultural background, historical detail; no patterns. | TT496 I82 F574 2002 | ||
| Visual history of costume: the 14th & 15th Centuries | Margaret Scott | Batsford, 1986 | 1st volume of a 6-volume series | 391 SCO 1986 | GT733 V57 1983 v.0 | |
| Hooked-clasps & eyes | Brian Read | Portcullis Publishing, 2008 | Catalog of metal finds from archaeological sites in England from the Roman period to post-medieval; amazing detail and variety. Hooks, eyes, loops, rings, toggles; good source for metal-workers as well as costumers. | GT2280 .R43x 2008 | ||
| Medieval calendar year | B. A. Henisch | Penn. State Univ. Press, 1999 | ||||
| In Public and in Private: Elizabeth I and her World | Susan Watkins | Thames and Hudson, 1998 | U.S. title: Public and Private Worlds of Elizabeth I | 920 Elizabeth I c.1998 | DA355 .W34 1998 | |
| Books of hours | Janet Backhouse | British Library, 1985 | ||||
| Daily life in the Byzantine Empire | Marcus Rautman | Greenwood Press, 2006 | If you have an Eastern Mediterranean persona, this is the book for you. | DF521 .R37 2006 | ||
| Masters and servants in Tudor England | Alison Sim | Sutton Publishing, 2006 | DA320 .S556x 2006 | |||
| Inside the Renaissance house | Elizabeth Currie | V & A Publications, 2006 | Interior design in 15th/16th century Italy | NK2052 .C87x 2006 | ||
| To be a pilgrim: the medieval pilgrimage experience | Sarah Hopper | Sutton Publishing, 2002 | Nice blend of research with popular writing; explains the importance of medieval pilgrimages, in terms that 21st century readers can understand. | BR747 H67x 2002 | ||
| Pleasures and pastimes in medieval England | C. Reeves | Alan Sutton Publishing Limited, 1995 | DA185 .R44x 1995 | |||
| Artifice of Beauty: a history and practical guide to perfumes and cosmetics | Sally Pointer | Sutton Publishing, 2005 | Exactly what the subtitle says. An excellent, and often overlooked, book. Highly recommended. | GT499 .P65x 2005 | ||
| Gardens of New Spain: how Mediterranean plants and foods changed America | William W. Dunmire | Univ. of Texas Press, 2004 | Good description of agriculture in Spain circa 1492. | S451.7 D86 2004 | ||
| Medieval panorama | edited by Robert Bartlett | J. Paul Getty Museum, 2001 | maybe 100 pages of text & over 200 pages of color pictures, timeline and maps -- awesome! | D117 .M42x 2001 | ||
| Daily life in the Middle Ages | Paul B. Newman | McFarland, 2001 | A little of everything; not enough pictures but plenty of useful info. | CB353 N46 2001 | ||
| Atlas of medieval Europe | Donald Matthew | Facts on File, 1983 | extensive text uses maps to explain political developments, growth of towns, art & industry, etc. | 911.4 MAT 1983 | G1791 M3 1983b | |
| Daily life in Chaucer's England | J. L. Singman & W. McLean | Greenwood Press, 1995 | Everything you need to create a 14th century persona. | DA185 .S48 1995 | ||
| Daily life in Elizabethan England | Jeffrey L. Singman | Greenwood Press, 1995 | Everything you need to create an Elizabethan persona. | DA320 S56 1995 | ||
| Books, banks, buttons: and other inventions from the Middle Ages | Chiara Frugoni | Columbia Univ. Press, 2003 | Lighthearted look at everyday items such as eyeglasses, playing cards, forks, etc. Lots of color illustrations. | T17 .F7713 2003 | ||
| Arms and armor: the Cleveland Museum of Art | Stephen N. Fliegel | The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2007 | 355.8 FLI 2008 | |||
| Treasures from the Tower of London: an exhibition of arms and armour | A.V.B. Norman & G.M. Wilson | Lund Humphries, 1982 | Catalogue of a museum exhibition. Check the dates! because it has more than medieval & Renaissance examples. | U804 .G72 L65 1982b | ||
| Medieval cuisine of the Islamic world: a concise history with 174 recipes | Lilia Zaouali | Univ. of California Press, 2007 | TX725 .A65 Z3613 2007 | |||
| To the King's taste: Richard II's book of feasts and recipes; adapted for modern cooking | Lorna J. Sass | Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975. | Good introduction; recipes mostly from the late 14th C. | TX705 .S33 | ||
| Original Mediterranean cuisine: medieval recipes for today | B. Santich | Chicago Review Press, 1995 | Easy to read text; easy to follow recipes. | |||
| The medieval cook | B. A. Henisch | Boydell Press, 2009 | medieval cooks in the context of time... how they functioned... and the expectations which faced them in different social settings"" | |||
| Art, culture, and cuisine: ancient and medieval gastronomy | P. P. Bober | Univ. of Chicago Press, 1999 | See ch. 7 "Early Middle Ages" & ch. 8 "Late Gothic International Style" | TX637 .B58 1999 | ||
| Food in medieval times | M. W. Adamson | Greenwood Press, 2004 | Great "timeline"; tons of info. | TX641 .A33 2004 | ||
| Anglo-Saxon food and drink | Ann Hagen | Anglo-Saxon Books, 2006 | The "Bible" for this subject; everything you didn't know you needed to ask (but no recipes). | GT2853 .G7 H332x 2006 | ||
| Food and drink in Anglo-Saxon England | Debby Banham | Tempus, 2004 | Describes available foodstuffs and methods of cooking; no recipes. | GT2853 .G7 B36 2003 | ||
| Tudor cookery: recipes & history (revised edition) | Peter Brears | English Heritage, 2003 | ||||
| Food, wine & song: music and feasting in Renaissance Europe | [sung by] The Orlando Consort | harmonia mundi, 2001 | CD with recipes included in the extensive liner notes; listen to the music while you cook! | |||
| The Modern Maker Vol. 1: Men's Doublets | M. Gnagy | Mathew Gnagy, 2014 | Giovanni Loredan | |||
| The Modern Maker Vol. 2: Pattern Manual 1580-1640 | M. Gnagy | Mathew Gnagy, 2018 | Giovanni Loredan |