Byzantine Dress: Representations of Secular Dress

by Jennifer L. Ball

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1403967008
• ISBN13: 9781403967008
• Release Date: February 2006
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 205 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.6"