Somehow, I made it into my adult life with no books on medieval life.  All right, I have ONE – an excerpt of Bocaccio’s Decameron, which I bought fairly recently.  None of the retellings of Arthurian tales, of folktales, Maculay’s Castle and Cathedral, none of those are in my house.

I have no idea how this happened.  But it’s getting Fixed, right now.

I got some Amazon gelt as a Yuletide present (thanks, Mom!) and the following are on their way to my door:

Renaissance Fashions (Dover Pictorial Archives)
Medieval Costumes Paper Dolls (History of Costume)
A Weaver’s Garden: Growing Plants for Natural Dyes and Fibers
A Dyer’s Garden: From Plant to Pot Growing Dyes for Natural Fibers
Realm of St. Stephen: A History of Medieval Hungary
And a pH tester for the garden.

In the meantime, I made a friend at the local needlepoint shop, and she lent me a stack of embroidery books, which I promptly returned and forgot to blog.  Ah well, you’ll see xeroxes from them as we go along.