Here are some nice (or not so nice) references that happen to either be lying about my office, or that i have notes from lying in the office.

_The Medieval Woman: an illuminated book of days_, researched and edited by Sally Fox, Bulfinch Press, Boston, 1985, 0-8212-1587-6. A tiny hardbound calendar-datebook, with one page per week and a full-color illustration to go with each week. The illustrations are all dated and referenced, most from the 14th and 15th centuries, showing women at various tasks and occupations, from cooking tripe to blacksmithing. This is still in print, and available from online sellers for less than $15.

_Aroma: The cultural history of smell_, Classen, C., Howes, D., and Synnott, A. Routledge, 1994, 0-415-11472-1 (hdbk) or 0-415-11473-X (pbk). Somewhat more scholarly than a popular-history type of book, it has a whole chapter on medieval perfumes, spices, incense, and other scent-related topics. There are also chapters on Roman/Greek and later periods. Not sure if it is in print.

_Food & Eating in Medieval Europe_, ed. Carlin, M. and Rosenthal, J. Hambledon Press, 1998, 1-85285-148-1. This is a collection of scolarly essays on various topics, including "Making sense of medieval culinary records" (which critiques published translations of medieval recipes), "The household of Alice de Bryene, 1412-13", "Medieval and renaissance wedding banquets and other feasts", "Pilgrims to table: food consumption in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales", "Fast food and urban living standards in medieval England" (this one is pretty interesting, and goes into detail about what food was carried by people on a journey, what cooking equipment and stores people of different social classes had, and what foods were sold by street vendors), "Did the peasants really starve in medieval england?", and a few other articles. I think this is still in print.

_Working Dress: A History of Occupational Clothing_, Marly, D. BT Batsford, Ltd, London, 1986, 0712450282. This really wasn't a very helpful book (imho), and contained the somewhat questionable assertion that cross-dressing was common at the bottom of society - the poor wore what they could get their hands on.

_Archaeology of York_. This is a lovely archaeological series, in something like 18 volumes, each volume in numerous 'fascicules'. Each fascicule is published separately. Volume 17 is dedicated to Small Finds. Easpecially nice is V17f11, "Textile Production at 16-22 Coppergate", 1-872-414-76-1, which is somewhat reminiscent of the MoL's _Textiles and Clothing_, with a focus on, well, textile production. The materials ranges from Roman era to post 15th. 16-22 Coppergate has info on wool combs, flax working stuff, an actual distaff (i spent several years looking for decent information on early distaffs), shears, needles, types of stitches, looms, you name it. And in that same volume, fascicule 11 is also nice, tho it focuses on relatively early periods, "Craft, Industry, and Everyday Life: Bone, Antler, Ivory, and Horn from Angle-Scandinavian and Medieval York" 1-872414-99-0, which has similar stuff to Arthur MacGregor's earlier book on like subjects, including combs, spoons, scoops, whistles, dice, skates, and the interesting pinner's bone used to file the ends of pins without bending them. The entirety of one volume (16?) is given over to pottery. Kind of hard to find, altho i have seen it in used bookstores.

_Bone, Antler, Ivory, and Horn: the technology of skeletal materials since the Roman period_, A. MacGregor, Helm, C., 1985, 0-7099-3242-1. Combs, mirror cases, early pins, gaming pieces, knife handles, needle cases, tablet-weaving tablets, casket mounts, and lots more stuff.

_A History of Hand Knitting_, Richard Rutt, BT Batsford, Ltd, 1987, 0-7134-5118-1
Although the author claims to be an amatuer, he does a nice job of systematically examining a lot of evidence for and against knitting in medieval times in the beginning of the book. He displays the hard evidence in the form of illustrations of people knitting and knitted finds, and tears down anything which cannot be proven. out of print.

for culinary info:

Constance Hieatt's Pleyn Delit, 2nd edition. a great intro to medieval cuisine with lots of reconstructed recipes. What makes this book great is that she includes the original medieval recipe so you can see how close she was and make sure she didnt add any "creative" ingredients, like Fabulous Feasts (yark).

Bridget Heinsch's Fast and Feast. a GREAT book on generaal food info...who ate what when. Well footnoted and cited, which is my hallmark for a good book.

Barbara Santichs "The Original Mediterranean Cuisine" has some great reconstructed recipes (again, with the original text, even in the original italian/french/etc!). Not so useful for the germans, but the french and italians (and spanish if you got 'em) its right up their alley! The lemon chicken is to die for.

Anything by Terrance Scully is great...he is one of the worlds foremost french food scholars.