In Byzantium two overlapping systems of dress existed: 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. Courtiers participated in a semiotic system of dress, but fashion crept into their prescribed outfits; the nobility chose their clothing based primarily on individual taste, but status was encoded within their fashions. This book elucidates secular dress from the eighth to the twelfth centuries through an examination of painted representations, helping the reader to envision an entire society of dressed citizens.
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"Dress history is a field rightly gaining increasing recognition and an up-to-date book on Byzantine dress is certainly overdue...Ball's book begins the process of changing the situation. She argues convincingly that the Byzantines were concerned with fashion and used it in a significant and nuanced way." —Speculum
"This book is a welcome addition to the history of Byzantine dress.... a useful introduction to the subject; it deals with the problems of the evidence and is willing to recognise the problems of definition of garments over time." —Medieval Clothing and Textiles
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Jennifer L. Ball is Assistant Professor of Medieval Art History at Brooklyn College.
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I have enjoyed this book very much. The only criticism I have is I wish it had a bunch of color plates in it so we can SEE more of what is described. But the descriptions are fantastic and highly useful. I cannot recommend this book enough. It is a must-have book for anyone interested in secular clothing in the middle Byzantine period.
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The portrait of the Empress Eudokia, wife of Basil I (r. 86786), with her sons, Leo and Alexander, in the Homilies of Gregory Nazianzus (Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France MS Gr. 510, fol. Br) (see plate 1), presents two interesting problems of interpreting the imperial dress in which all three are shown.1 Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Middle Byzantine, Late Byzantine, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Hagia Sophia, Menologium of Basil, Nikephoros Botaneiates, Vatican City, Anna Radene, Byzantine Egypt, Carikli Kilise, Karabas Kilise, Moscevaja Balka, Mount Athos, Homilies of Gregory Nazianzus, Lavra Lectionary, Leo Sakellarios, Anna Kaznitze, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, Elisabeth Piltz, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Michael Skepides, Selime Kilise, Vatican Psalter, Empress Irene, Gospel Book Leaves New!
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The portrait of the Empress Eudokia, wife of Basil I (r. 86786), with her sons, Leo and Alexander, in the Homilies of Gregory Nazianzus (Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France MS Gr. 510, fol. Br) (see plate 1), presents two interesting problems of interpreting the imperial dress in which all three are shown.1 Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Middle Byzantine, Late Byzantine, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Hagia Sophia, Menologium of Basil, Nikephoros Botaneiates, Vatican City, Anna Radene, Byzantine Egypt, Carikli Kilise, Karabas Kilise, Moscevaja Balka, Mount Athos, Homilies of Gregory Nazianzus, Lavra Lectionary, Leo Sakellarios, Anna Kaznitze, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, Elisabeth Piltz, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Michael Skepides, Selime Kilise, Vatican Psalter, Empress Irene, Gospel Book Leaves New!
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- Ancient Greek, Roman and Byzantine Costume and Decoration by Mary G. Houston on 6 pages
- Encyclopedia Of Islam by Clifford Edmund Bosworth on 5 pages
- Byzantine Coins (The Library of Numismatics Series) by Philip Grierson in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Royal Imagery in Medieval Georgia by Antony Eastmond in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium (3-Volume Set) by Alexander P. Kazhdan in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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