SPA Uitgevers

Identifying Armour has been written in order to help archaeologists and other people to identify metal plate armor, dating from 1370 to 1490 AD. This guide focusses on armor that has been made in West-Europe...

Volume 2 of Archaeological Footwear contains types of sandals and overshoes from the Roman period, the mediaeval and early modern period found in European archaeological excavations. The named style...

Karel Vlierman explains the shipbuilding tradition of the Hanseatic period in detail and clarifies the differences between the cog and, for example, the 'nef' of the southern North Sea, which belongs to the Nordic or Scandinavian tradition.

Since 1968 several thousand leather artefacts have been recovered in the city of Dordrecht, ranging in date from the 12th century through to the 17th century.

At the end of the 18th century numerous Dutch people used all kinds of ceramic and glass items in their household as media to convey their political stance in favour of or against the ruling House of Orange. These fascinating objects with a certain political meaning have been examined in order to understand the material culture of Dutch Orangists a

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 artefacts, in some cases inventing new terminology to describe them.

Drawing on 25 years' experience as a conservator of leather, Goubitz presents a typological catalogue of footwear dating from 800-1800 AD.

The knowledge of how to make a shoe pattern was certainly the ancient shoemaker’s most closely guarded secret, passed from master to apprentice but never written down. Now, after 20 years of research, the principles for making ancient shoe patterns have been rediscovered.