Description: First full edition of a unique and unusual set of statutes showing the changes in fashion and techniques of hat manufacture; the formation of the hatmakers' fraternity; their rivalry and ultimately merging with their rival Haberdashers.
Brief description: Shannon McSheffrey is Professor of History at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. She has written five books and numerous articles and chapters on aspects of English society, culture, and politics between 1400 and 1550. She is currently at work on the Evil May Day anti-immigrant riot in London in 1517.
Review Quotes: Ce livre constitue un modèle de collaboration académique et scientifique... pour le plus grand bénéfice d'une meilleure compréhension du passé. La conjugaison des compétences scientifiques et de méthodes propres à chaque domaine... donne aux ordonnances... une profondeur et un sens historique qu'elles n'auraient pu obtenir par une seule analyse historienne ou linguistique.
The book stands as a model of academic and scholarly collaboration... to the great benefit of achieving a deeper understanding of the past. Combining scholarly expertise and methodological approaches from each field gives the ordinances a depth and historical meaning they could never have achieved through historical or linguistic analysis alone.-- "SOCIAL HISTORY"