Thrust: A Spasmodic Pictorial History of the Codpiece in Art by Michael Glover

Thrust: A Spasmodic Pictorial History of the Codpiece in Art

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Michael Glover

94 pages first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction art history funny informative reflective slow-paced
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A laugh-out-loud visual history of the strangest piece of men's clothing ever created: the codpiece.The codpiece was fashioned in the Middle Ages to close a revealing gap between two separate pieces of men's tights. By the sixteenth century, it ha...

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