Byzantine Dress: A Guide

This book offers approaches to the study of Byzantine dress of elites and non-elites, in sacred and secular modes, from the beginning of the Empire in the fourth century until the fifteenth century.

List of contents

Introduction
Jennifer Ball
SECTION I: Perspectives on Byzantine Dress
Chapter 1. Byzantine identity and dress
Maria Parani
Chapter 2. Uniformity and Distinction
Jennifer Ball
Chapter 3. Dressing Beyond Byzantium: Negotiating Identity Through Local and Imported Fashion
Cristina Stancioiu
SECTION II. Value and Construction
Chapter 4. Jewelry
Georgios Makris
Chapter 5. Dressing the Non-Elite in the Byzantine Empire
Arielle Winnick
Chapter 6. The Construction and Re-Use of Clothing in the Late Antique Period
Faith Pennick Morgan
SECTION III. Clothing Rituals
Chapter 7. Byzantine Dress in Marriage Rituals
Gabriel Radle
Chapter 8. Liturgical Dress
Warren Woodfin
Chapter 9. Ceremonial and Diplomatic Dress
Tim Dawson
Chapter 10: The Byzantine Fashion System
Jennifer Ball
Chapter 11: Displaying Byzantine Dress
Kathrin Colburn and Elizabeth Dosp¿l-Williams

About the author

Jennifer Ball is a professor of Early Christian and Byzantine Art History at The City University of New York. Her research interests encompass textiles and dress, and portrait representations of dress. Much of her research considers the movement of textiles, and other material culture, around Afro-Eurasia, in the Byzantine, Islamic, and Western medieval worlds. She is a frequent lecturer at The Metropolitan Museum of Art and has held fellowships at The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Princeton University's Program in Hellenic Studies. She is the recipient of teaching awards including the Claire Tow Distinguished Teacher Award at Brooklyn College.

Summary

This book offers approaches to the study of Byzantine dress of elites and non-elites, in sacred and secular modes, from the beginning of the Empire in the fourth century until the fifteenth century.

Product details

• Authors: Jennifer Ball, Jennifer L. Ball
• Assisted by: Jennifer L. Ball (Editor), Ball Jennifer (Editor), Ball Jennifer L. (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.11.2024
• EAN: 9781032787121
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3278712-1
• No. of pages: 246
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Non-fiction book > History > Pre and early history, antiquity; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, HISTORY / Byzantine Empire, Fashion & society, Social and cultural history, Ancient History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Byzantine Empire, Archaeological Theory, Cultural studies: dress and society, byzantium;dress;fashion;culture;society