The purpled world : marketing haute couture in the Aegean Bronze Age / by Morris Silver.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Silver, Morris, author.

Series:

Hellenic studies ; 92.

Hellenic studies ; 92

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Textile fabrics, Ancient--Economic aspects--Aegean Sea.

Textile fabrics, Ancient.

Textile industry--Aegean Sea--History--To 1500.

Textile industry.

Color in the textile industries--History.

Color in the textile industries.

Bronze age--Aegean Sea.

Bronze age.

Mediterranean Sea--Aegean Sea.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

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

Distribution:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Distributed by Harvard University Press

Other Title:

Marketing haute couture in the Aegean Bronze Age

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : Center for Hellenic Studies, 2023.

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"-- Blackwell's.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 416-482) and index.

ISBN:

0674272560

9780674272569

OCLC:

1266214047