Patten (shoe) Patten (shoe) Pattens are protective overshoes that were worn in Europe from the Middle Ages until the early 20th century. Pattens were worn outdoors over a normal shoe, had a wooden or later wood and metal sole, and were held in place by leather or cloth bands. Pattens functioned to elevate the foot above the mud and dirt (including human effluent and animal dung) of the street, in a period when road and urban paving was minimal. The word "patten" probably derives from the Old French "pate" meaning hoof or paw. Women continued to wear pattens in muddy conditions until
War of the Bucket the Modenese took a bucket from a well just outside a city gate as a trophy. 17th-century Italian poet Alessandro Tassoni composed the mock-heroic epic "La secchia rapita" on the events of the War of the Bucket. An ancient wooden bucket is kept in the Torre della Ghirlandina in Modena to this day. It is said to be the bucket taken from Bologna before the battle, or afterward as a trophy. After the war, Ghibelline power had risen up once again, but the wars were not over. In 1447, the Ghibellines encountered failures when the Ambrosian Republic was created and