Byzantine Dress: Representations of Secular Dress (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781403967008)

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.

Author: J. Ball
ISBN-10: 1403967008
ISBN-13: 9781403967008
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 02/22/2006
Pages: 205
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.76lbs
Size: 8.58h x 6.04w x 0.69d