Ancient Textiles - Production, Craft and Society
Carole Gillis, Marie-Louise Nosch
Aufsatzsammlung der „First International Conference on Ancient
Textiles at Lund and Copenhagen 2003“ zu Textilproduktion und
sozialer Rolle bestimmter Textilien in Antike und frühem
Mittelalter.
An understanding of textiles and the role they played in the past
is important for anyone interested in past societies. Textiles
served and in fact still do as both functional and symbolic items.
The evidence for ancient textiles in Europe is split quite
definitely along a north-south divide, with an abundance of actual
examples in the north, but precious little in the south, where
indirect evidence comes from such things as vase painting and
frescoes. This volume brings together these two schools to look in
more detail at textiles in the ancient world, and is based on a
conference held in Denmark and Sweden in March 2003. Section one,
Production and Organisation takes a chronological look through more
than four thousand years of history; from Syria in the mid-third
millennium BC, to Seventeenth Century Germany. Section two, Crafts
and Technology focuses on the relationship between the primary
producer (the craftsman) and the secondary receiver (the
archaeologist/conservator). The third section, Society, examines
the symbolic nature of textiles, and their place within ancient
societal groups. Throughout the book emphasis is placed on the
universality of textiles, and the importance of information
exchange between scholars from different disciplines.
Format 22 x 28 cm, Hardcover, 290 Seiten, sehr viele Farb- und s/w
Abb, engl. Text
Best.-Nr. Ox004
