The use of purses, pouches, bags, sheaths and other containers saw its heyday in the Middle Ages. The purse became a fashion item and was an essential part of a persons outfit. This book provides a typology for all types of purse-like artifacts, in some cases inventing new terminology to describe them. The book is illustrated with finds from the Netherlands, woodcuts and other contemporary depictions, and with Goubitzs gloriously detailed reconstruction drawings. ...for the true historian of the purse through the ages, this is a must have for your purse book shelf.'--Melissa Overdorf, Founder, Antique Purse Collector's Society (9/1/2008 12:00:00 AM) This is an important book...'--Robert N. Charrette, Schuyler, Virginia "Medieval Clothing and Textiles, vol 14, 2008" 80966