Byzantine Dress: Representations of Secular Dress

Ball, J.

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.

EAN

9781403967008

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

Published

22 February 2006

Pages

205