This volume gathers together and updates Anna Muthesius' articles, published over a 20 year period, on Byzantine and related silks. The articles examine all aspects of silk production, distribution and use, including the political, economic, social and religious significance of silks, and illustrates the impact of silk weaving on the Eastern Mediterranean before 1200 AD. The figures have also been updated. Table of Contents Introduction; De zijden stoffen in de Schatkamer van de Sint Servaaskerk te Maastricht; The Silk over the Spine of the Mondsee Gospel Lectionary; The Silks from the Tomb of Archbishop Walter; A Practical Approach to History of Byzantine Silk Weaving; Silks and Saints: The Rider and Peacock Silks from the Relics of St. Cuthbert; Byzantine and Islamic Silks in the Rhine-Maaslands before 1200; From Seed to Samite: Aspects of Byzantine Silk Production; The Impact of the Mediterranean Silk Trade on Western Europe before 1200 AD; The Griffin Silk from St. Trond; Silken Diplomacy; Crossing traditional boundaries: Grub to Glamour in Byzantine silk weaving; The Role of Byzantine Silks in the Ottonian Empire; Politics, piety and the silken cult of relics: Aachen Münster treasury silks in historical context; Silk, Power and Diplomacy in Byzantium; The hidden Jewish element in Byzantium's Silk Industry: Catalyst for the Impact of Byzantine silks on the Latin Church before 1200 AD; The Byzantine silk industry: Lopez and beyond Constantinople and its Hinterland: Issues of Raw Silk Supply; A Silk Reliquary Pouch from Coppergate; The Silk Fragment from Coppergate, York; Review: Silks at Lyon; Additional Notes; Index.

Studies in Byzantine and Islamic Silk Weaving

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Studies in Silk in Byzantium

This book brings together seventeen important new papers published by Anna Muthesius since 1995. Many of the articles, plates and specially prepared figures are available only in this book. The volume acts as an essential companion to Dr Muthesius' earlier book in this series, Studies in Byzantine and Islamic Silk Weaving. The present book includes a group of seven papers (Studies II-VI, X, and XIV) originally entitled 'Silk in Byzantium'. These were prepared in the first instance for a seminar held in 1997 in Nicosia at the University of Cyprus. They offer an overall survey of Byzantine sericulture, silk manufacture, design, use and distribution. Study I has been added as an introduction to the Cyprus series, and to the book as a whole. Silk in an ecclesiastical context (the relationship between Imperial and monastic piety, ritual and Christological debate) forms the focus for a further five papers (Studies VIII-IX and XI-XIII). Study VIII acts to introduce a new subject, the theme of Byzantine Seafaring silks. The final three articles (Studies XV-XVII) explore the immense impact of Byzantine silks abroad between the fifth and fifteenth centuries, in regions as far apart as the British Isles and Central Asia.

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