Shirts were worn by medieval men as an undergarment on their torsos. The women's equivalent would be a smock.

Like the smock, a shirt is usually white linen, the quality improving with one's ability to afford and maintain such a garment; there are a few descriptions of silk shirts as well.

For embroidered Renaissance shirts for men, see the blackwork linkspage.

• Joseph is cast into the pit in the Maciejowski Bible (PML M.638, fol. 5r), c. 1250
• Tacuinum Sanitatis (BNF Nouvelle acquisition latine 1673), c. 1390-1400: collecting truffles (fol. 39v), making unleavened bread (fol. 55), making millet bread (fol. 56), dispute between drunks (fol. 88v), and hunting (fol. 91v).
• Lancelot and the seductive damsel, Lancelot du Lac (BNF Fr. 118, fol. 299v), beginning of the 15th century
• Polycrates Hanged (Getty 63, fol. 106), c. 1415
• The deaths of the sons of Sedecias (fol. 54v) and the execution of Andronicus I (fol. 325) in De casibus (BNF Fr. 232), second quarter of the 15th century
• Cecco Angiolieri is robbed (fol. 251v) and Gianni di Barolo abuses Gemmata (fol. 264v) in the Decameron (BNF Fr. 239), second quarter of the 15th century
• The story of Cecco, son of Messer Fortarrigo, and Cecco, son of Messer Anguilieri in the Decameron (BNF Arsenal 5070, fol. 330v), 1432
• Surrender of the Burghers of Ghent from Privileges and Statutes of Ghent and Flanders, c. 1454
• Right panel of the St. John Altarpiece by Rogier van der Weyden, 1455-1460
• The deaths of Vitruvius Vaccus and Polycrate, De casibus (BNF Fr. 230, fol. 100), third quarter of the 15th century
• Illustrations in the Speculum historiale, 1463: torture and execution of Hannon (BNF Fr. 50, fol. 119v), Crucifixion (BNF Fr. 50, fol. 231v), and the martyrdoms of St. Vital (BNF Fr. 50, fol. 327v), the ten thousand, (BNF Fr. 50, fol. 383), the brothers of St. Felicity (BNF Fr. 50, fol. 388v), St. Valerian (BNF Fr. 50, fol. 391), St. Justin (BNF Fr. 51, fol. 89), and the forty martyrs (BNF Fr. 51, fol. 114)
• Death of Mark, Romance of the Round Table (BNF Fr. 112 (3), fol. 163), c. 1470
• Vivian finds Lancelot, Lancelot du Lac (BNF Fr. 114, fol. 352), c. 1470
• The madness of Lancelot, Lancelot du Lac (BNF Fr. 116, fol. 598v), c. 1470
• The martyrdoms of St. Stephen (BNF Fr. 244, fol. 29), St. Hippolitus (BNF Fr. 245, fol. 40v), and St. Cosmas & St. Damian (BNF Fr. 245, fol. 111), The Golden Legend, c. 1480-1490
• Works of Mercy: Clothing the beggar, from an altarpiece by Master S.H., c. 1490-1500
• Beheading of St. John the Baptist by Juan de Flandes, c. 1496-1499
• August in the Hennessy Book of Hours, c. 1530-1540
• Linen shirt embroidered with blue silk, England, c. 1540 (V&A T.112-1972)
• The Wheat Harvest by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1565
• An embroidered shirt, 16th century Italy (Met 10.124.2)
• A long linen shirt, c. 1590-1596 (Rijksmuseum NG-NM-9464)
• A shirt with drawn thread and pulled thread work, made in England or Italy c. 1630-1639 (V&A T.49-1934)