For a short time in the early years of the seventeenth century, there was a break in the triangular line during which the bum roll was worn—a padded roll tied around the waist under the petticoats that distended the silhouette at the hips

Probably both were written in the North Midlands area of England in the fourteenth century, the Stanzaic Morte Arthur around the middle of the century, the Alliterative Morte Arthure toward the end, probably around 1400 or so

The Alliterative Morte Arthure belongs to the "Alliterative Revival," the literary movement that begins in the middle years of the fourteenth century

"Alliterative Revival," the literary movement that begins in the middle years of the fourteenth century

The high point of opus anglicanum production (its 'Great Period') is regarded as being from between 1350 and 1450