Byzantine Dress: A Guide

Auteur

Jennifer L. 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.

Texte du rabat

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.

Contenu

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