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The Purpled World : Marketing Haute Couture in the Aegean Bronze Age

by: Silver, M.

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Code: 30527
ISBN-13: 9780674272569 / 978-0-674-27256-9
ISBN-10: 0674272560 / 0-674-27256-0
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication Date: 2023
Publication Place: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Binding: Paper
Pages: 494
Book Condition: New
Comments: Hellenic Studies 92

The purpled world : marketing haute couture in the Aegean Bronze Age

Author:Morris Silver

Summary:"During the Aegean Bronze Age, the spread of woolen textiles triggered an increased demand for color. In The Purpled World, Silver reveals how Minoan and Mycenaean textile producers embedded commercial motivation into traditional rituals, and considers collapse of the Mycenaean Palaces as a manifestation of disintegration in the textile industry

Series:
Hellenic studies, 92


xxviii, 494 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm.


Contents:
Aegean Bronze Age chronology
Introduction : Studying a purpled world
Part I. The palatial fashion showroom and runway
Part II. Luxury textiles in the Bronze Age Aegean : economic aspects
Part III. Achaeans, Ahhiyawans, and Mycenaean textile trade in Anatolia
Part IV. The Homeric epics and Bronze Age Aegean textile trade
Part V. Questions of Aegean textile trade before the Trojan War and after the Mycenaean Palaces
Appendix. The basics of vertical industrial structure

 

Subjects:
Bronze age
Bronze age Aegean Sea
Color in the textile industries
Color in the textile industries History
Couleur dans l'industrie textile Histoire
History
Mediterranean Sea Aegean Sea
Textile fabrics, Ancient Economic aspects Aegean Sea
Textile industry
Textile industry Aegean Sea History To 1500
Textiles et tissus antiques Aspect économique Égée, Mer
To 1500

 
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The Purpled World : Marketing Haute Couture in the Aegean Bronze Age

by: Silver, M.

  • ISBN-13: 9780674272569 / 978-0-674-27256-9
  • ISBN-03: 0674272560 / 0-674-27256-0
  • Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2023

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