Byzantine Dress
Representations of Secular Dress in Eighth- to Twelfth-Century Painting
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9804613 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rachel Morris (0000-0001-9451-6857, University of York, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 122 |
| Issue | 496 |
| Pages | 519-520 |
| Publication date | 2007-04-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The English Historical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-8266 • E-ISSN: 1477-4534 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/ehr/cem037 |
| OpenAlex | W2059044108 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
Jennifer Ball's short introductory study of Middle Byzantine dress ought to have been a volume that could happily have been recommended to students as an introduction to this fascinating topic. She analyses the imperial and court dress and regalia of the period and makes brave efforts to match the vocabulary of the written sources with the items of clothing portrayed on mosaics and in illuminated manuscripts. She suggests that the borderlands of the Empire provided ‘fashion centres’ from which new clothing styles (Islamic-influenced tiraz bands and turbans from the eastern provinces, or ‘sleek Western dresses’ from Kastoria, for instance) spread to the capital, and postulates a provincial elite which had both the money and the desire to spend it on garments which they did not in the least view as ethnic identifiers. The rigid dress ‘signifiers’ of the court, the upholder of ‘Roman-ness’, thus stood, she maintains, in stark contrast
Aesthetics · Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Art history · Byzantine architecture · Clothing · Elite · Empire · Islam · Painting · Period (music · Political science · Politics · Visual arts · Byzantine Studies and History · Eurasian Exchange Networks · Historical and Religious Studies of Rome · History · Law
| Citations per year | 0.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |