I was just thinking that very thing. Sort of romanticizing this apparently "Bohemian" (in the hippy sense) woman.
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 11:18 AM, Beth and Bob Matney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > It is interesting that all of the women's portraits of both manuscripts > (the few that were there) show this. Much more variation in headgear in the > men's portraits. Informal settings? Maybe to show an "unconventional" > lifestyle? Hippies of the 13th C? > > Beth > > Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:31:38 +0000 >> From: Anne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> Probably not - a troubadour is a composer, and the vida, or biography, >> of Castelloza says she was married. But it was a fairly unconventional >> thing for a woman to do, and who knows what later Venetians might have >> thought she would have worn? >> >> Jean >> > > _______________________________________________ > h-costume mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume > -- Maggie Secara ~A Compendium of Common Knowledge 1558-1603 ISBN 978-0-9818401-0-9 Available at http://elizabethan.org/compendium/paperback.html or your favorite online bookseller _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
