Footprints in time. Shoes, from their beginnings to the twenty first century

The book offers an innovative and curios insight into the history of shoes and footwear art in Western Civilization from prehistoric times right up to the twenty first century, and fills a void in the bibliographic panorama of this sector, both in terms of its comprehensive approach and in depth historical content regarding the topics covered. It was an interesting challenge to find a way of identifying the various types and models of shoes, based on written and iconographic sources and materials from numerous different eras witch have been carefully researched, and this is what makes this book an original, illustrated collection of footwear throughout history.