1. See on the importance of clothing as identity markers in late medieval and early modern European cities amongst others: Carole Collier Frick, Dressing Renaissance Florence. Families, Fortunes, and Fine Clothing (Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002)
2. Kathleen Ashley, “Material and Symbolic Gift-Giving. Clothes in English and French Wills”, in Jane Burns (ed.), Medieval Fabrications: Dress, Textiles, Clothwork, and Other Cultural Imaginings (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004), 137–46.
3. F. De Ridder, “De Oudste Statuten van het Mechelsche Begijnhof”, Handelingen van de Koninklijke Kring voor Oudheidkunde, Fetteren en Kunst van Mechelen (KKOLKM), 39 (1934), 18–19
4. Walter Simons, Cities of Ladies: Beguine Communities in the Medieval Low Countries, 1200–1565 (Philadephia: University of Philadelphia Press, 2001), 103.
5. Lodovico Guicciardini, Descrittione di tutti i Pausi Bassi (Antwerpen: Christoffel Plantijn, 1581), 234.