Some photos from Visby medieval week

haugtussa sitting in my new pavillion, working on another of her gorgeous embroideries:



amonik in the chapter house, just before my lecture on same sex sexuality in the middle ages:



camele0pard, Felix and sir Padraig entering the list at the Visby tournament:



liadethornegge and edricus entering the list:



Our nice neighbours viscount Bengt and Hedvig bowing to the princess of Nordmark and their excellences, the baron and baroness of Styringheim.



Me at the tournament:

And then it happened again

Historians, who are experts on other periods (and actually not necessarily clothing) claiming that there was lots of sumptuary legislation aiming to make firm distinctions between the estates in the Middle Ages in Sweden. There was very little sumptuary legislation at all in Sweden in the middle ages, and none of it had this goal and rarely mentions clothing at all - it was aimed primarily at the nobility, to curb their spending - and even if you go outside sweden that type of sumptuary legislation is much more common in the early modern period. If you don't know anything about the middle ages and the book anyway doesn't cover that period, why not just abstain from saying anything ???
And how should I value the rest of the information in the book now?