Byzantine Dress
Subtitle: Representations of Secular Dress in Eighth- to Twelfth-century Painting (The New Middle Ages)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: January 19, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781403967008
Subjects: Costume; Medieval; Design - Textile & Costume; Byzantine Empire - History; Fashion; History; History - General History; History: World; Byzantine Empire; Beauty & Grooming - General; Art : Design - Textile & Costume; Health & Fitness : Beauty & Grooming - General; History / Medieval; 1081-1453; Civilization; Clothing and dress
First sentence: The portrait of the Empress Eudokia, wife of Basil I (r. 86786), 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