Mongol court dress, identity formation, and global exchange / Eiren L. Shea.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shea, Eiren L., author.

Series:

Routledge Research in Art History.

Routledge Research in Art History

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Costume--History.

Costume.

Group identity.

Mongols.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 172 pages, 16 pages of plates) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2024.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon : Routledge, 2020.

System Details:

text file HTML

Summary:

The Mongol period (1206-1368) marked a major turning point of exchange - culturally, politically, and artistically - across Eurasia. The wide-ranging international exchange that occurred during the Mongol period is most apparent visually through the inclusion of Mongol motifs in textile, paintings, ceramics, and metalwork, among other media. Eiren Shea investigates how a group of newly-confederated tribes from the steppe conquered the most sophisticated societies in existence in less than a century, creating a courtly idiom that permanently changed the aesthetics of China and whose echoes were felt across Central Asia, the Middle East, and even Europe. This book will be of interest to scholars in art history, fashion design, and Asian studies.

Contents:

Felt, leather, silk, and gold : on the origins of Mongol court dress

Robing at Khubilai's court

"Pulling firmly her tall hat over her head :" women's dress at the Yuan court

Mongol dress in West Asia

Global reach : the Mongols and the Latin West

The Mongol legacy.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780429340659

0429340656

9781000027891

1000027899

OCLC:

1139920835