J. Ball

Byzantine Dress

Representations of Secular Dress

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In Byzantium there were two overlapping systems of dress: a semiotic one whereby dress was a code for rank and wealth, and a fashion system where dress was based on the desire to look a certain way. This book explains secular dress from the eighth to the twelfth centuries through an examination of painted representations.

Produktdetails

• The New Middle Ages
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan US / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-4039-6700-8
• 2006 edition
• Seitenzahl: 205
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Februar 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 153mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 420g
• ISBN-13: 9781403967008
• ISBN-10: 1403967008
• Artikelnr.: 22304152

Autorenporträt

JENNIFER L. BALL is Assistant Professor of Medieval Art History at Brooklyn College, New York, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Abbreviations for Manuscripts Cited List of Plates Introduction Methodology Imperial Dress Court Dress Dress of the Borderland Elite Non-Elite Dress An Examination of the Textile Evidence Conclusion Bibliography

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Rezensionen

'This book is a welcome addition to the history of Byzantine dress. It presents a concise coverage of the Middle Byzantine period (eighth to twelfth centuries) using paintings (both frescoes and illustrated manuscripts) as its main evidence...It will be a good addition to the libraries of Byzantine historians and dress historians.' - Medieval Clothing and Textiles