ABSTRACT
Apparel and costumes have long been the preferential subject of study by fashion and dress historians alike. In fifteenth and early sixteenth century European courts, Burgundian fashion came to shape tastes. When Charles V inherited the Burgundian, Trastámara, and Habsburg lands and made Spain a base for his court in the 1520s, Burgundian fashion came to be known as Spanish fashion. Together with woollen cloth, the other major textile trade in Medina del Campo was linen. Local linen goods were generally poor quality and were barely traded outside the domestic market. Studies of clothes worn by Spaniards in the late Middle Ages and at the start of the early modern period are scarce and mainly focus on analyzing different garments portrayed in various artworks that have survived from the period. Together with woollen cloth, the other major textile trade in Medina del Campo was linen.
