Byzantine Dress : Representations of Secular Dress
ISBN: 9781137057792
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / Palgrave Macmillan
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Subjects: Literature;

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.

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

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