From the back cover:
Make your own Medieval Clothing - Shoes of the High and Late Middle Age is a practical guide for anyone good at crafts wishing to try their hand at shoemaking. Master shoemaker Stefan von der Heide provides information on materials and tools used in shoemaking in the Middle Ages in order to enable the reader to make different shoes and boot styles. Furthermore the author presents various types of shoes and different ways of making them as well as material recommendations.

Contents:
page 5 Preface
6 Shoe fashion during the High and Late Middle Ages
11 First, there is the foot
11 Anatomical basics
11 Taking measurements
12 Lasts
13 Materials and tools
13 Tools
15 Leather
15 Tanning methods
16 Pitch
18 Uppers
18 Upper construction using the angle system
18 Upper construction for low shoes
19 Upper construction for above ankle shoes, ankle boots and mid-calf boots
20 Upper construction for knee-high boots
20 Upper construction for riding boots
24 Detailing the upper
25 Standard shoe types
26 Low shoe
26 with instep lacing (11th/12th century)
27 with side lacing (late 12th to early 14th century)
28 with side buckle (13th to 15th century), as poulaines (second half of 14th century)
29 with front lacing and tongue (13th to 15th century), as poulaines (second half of 14th/15th century)
30 with side lacing at the inner ankle (late 12th to 14th century)
31 Shoe reaching above the ankle
31 with side lacing (13th/14th century)
32 Ankle boot
32 with side lacing (14th/15th century)
33 with wraparound lacing (12th/13th century)
34 with buckles (late 14th to late 15th century)
35 with front lacing, tied at the centre (14th/15th century)
36 with knotted strap fastenings (late 13th to 15th century)
37 peasant's boot (second half of 15th to 16th century)
38 Mid-calf/calf-length boot
38 with wraparound lacing (12th to 14th century)
40 with front lacing (14th/15th century)
41 with knotted strap fastenings (late 13th to late 15th century)
42 with buckles (late 14th to late 15th century)
44 Boot
44 knee-high boot (13th to 15th century)
45 waist-high boot (riding boot) (14th/15th century)
46 Upper assembly
46 Cutting
50 Shoemaker's thread
54 Inserting a boar's bristle
55 Inserting a steel bristle
55 Seam types for uppers
60 Fitting the upper
61 Base building
61 Sole shapes
62 Pinching
65 Sole seam
69 Extracting the lasts
70 Turning the shoes
72 Poulaines
74 Increasing the shoes' durability
74 Shoe care
74 Sole and upper repair
75 Insoles
75 Partial soles
78 Pattens
79 Glossary
79 List of references
79 Sources of supply
79 Acknowledgements