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Silk
Berit . Ed(S): Hildebrandt
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Description for Silk
Collected papers presenting latest multi-disciplinary approaches to the manufacture, trade in and status of silk and other textiles between Rome and China along the Silk Roads Editor(s): Hildebrandt, Berit. Num Pages: 224 pages, bw and colour. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1QDAR; 3D; HBG; HBLA1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 289 x 16. Weight in Grams: 824.
Already in Greek and Roman antiquity a vibrant series of exchange relationships existed between the Mediterranean regions and China, including the Indian subcontinent, along well-defined routes we call the Silk Roads. Among the many goods that found their way from East to West and vice versa were glass, wine spices, metals and precious stones as well as textile raw materials and fabrics of wool and silk, a precious fibre that was highly appreciated in many of the cultures along the roads that were named after it by modern scholars.
These collected papers bring together current historical, philological and archaeological ... Read more
Already in Greek and Roman antiquity a vibrant series of exchange relationships existed between the Mediterranean regions and China, including the Indian subcontinent, along well-defined routes we call the Silk Roads. Among the many goods that found their way from East to West and vice versa were glass, wine spices, metals and precious stones as well as textile raw materials and fabrics of wool and silk, a precious fibre that was highly appreciated in many of the cultures along the roads that were named after it by modern scholars.
These collected papers bring together current historical, philological and archaeological ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Oxbow Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
152
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781785702792
SKU
V9781785702792
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Ref
99-3
About Berit . Ed(S): Hildebrandt
Berit Hildebrandt is a researcher at the Nordic Centre of Heritage Learning and Creativity in Östersund, Sweden. She has previously worked at the Danish National Research Foundation’s Centre for Textile Research at Copenhagen University, Denmark, where she specialised, among other topics, in the study of Greek and Roman texts related to silk and the silk trade in antiquity.
Reviews for Silk
Hildebrandt’s eleven-page introduction observes that silk, more than other traded commodities, allows us to understand both the economic and political dimensions of trade in ancient cultures, and permits insights into the development and transfer of textile technologies between East and West.
New Testament Abstracts
This volume will appeal to the specialist focused on ancient textiles, but there is ... Read more
New Testament Abstracts
This volume will appeal to the specialist focused on ancient textiles, but there is ... Read more