. Social England; a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . , the constant influence of France, or of moredistant countries through France, is to be found in the namesof the most familiar garments. Goivn may be Anglo-Saxon,or even British, but mhe is undoubtedly French; hanftelvne. OF COSTfMK, LATi: FIITKHNTU rKXTlKV. IMS, !!..> 1^ Ii ii I comes Irom Germany, and perhaps through the Si)auish ;but of the French origin of cote-hardie and court-
. Social England; a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . , the constant influence of France, or of moredistant countries through France, is to be found in the namesof the most familiar garments. Goivn may be Anglo-Saxon,or even British, but mhe is undoubtedly French; hanftelvne. OF COSTfMK, LATi: FIITKHNTU rKXTlKV. IMS, !!..> 1^ Ii ii I comes Irom Germany, and perhaps through the Si)auish ;but of the French origin of cote-hardie and court-pic no lessthan of the more familiar surcoat and doublet, there can beno reasonable doubt. Many of these, of course, came into useat a time when French was the language of the court andthe nobler classes, but they continued long after this hadceased to be the case. Oiu- enumeration of the caprices offashion during the period tmder review is liy no meansfinished: but it will be enough to note, in the tirst place, that 68-2 THE CLOSE OF THE MIDDLE AGES. the hit;h head-dresses became distinctly higher until theyculminated in the well-known steeple or horn-shaped adorn-ment of the reign of Henry \.—monstrous in itself, but asimplification of preceding shapes—and then suddenly all suchdisappear in the closing years of Edward IV., and are replacedby a low, flat covering of the nature of a cap. Again, wh
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