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Wearing the Cloak: Dressing the Soldier in Roman Times: 10
Author(s): Marie-Louise Nosch (Editor), Henriette Koefoed
- Publisher: Oxbow Books
- Publication Date: 7 Dec. 2011
- Language: English
- Print length: 144 pages
- ISBN-10: 1842174371
- ISBN-13: 9781842174371
Book Description
Wearing the Cloak contains nine stimulating chapters on Roman military textiles and equipment that take textile research to a new level. Hear the sounds of the Roman soldiers’ clacking belts and get a view on their purchase orders with Egyptian weavers. Could armour be built of linen? Who had access to what kinds of prestigious equipment? And what garments and weapons were deposited in bogs at the edge of the Roman Empire? The authors draw upon multiple sources such as original textual and scriptural evidence, ancient works of art and iconography and archaeological records and finds. The chapters cover – as did the Roman army – a large geographical span: Egypt, the Levant, the Etruscan heartland and Northern Europe. Status, prestige and access are viewed in the light of financial and social capacities and help shed new light on the material realities of a soldier’s life in the Roman world.
Editorial Reviews
Review
Wearing the Cloak is not just a notable achievement and benchmark, but a stimulus to further research. — Archaeological Journal Archaeological Journal …an engrossing book, well-edited and well-illustrated. — Antiquity Antiquity Overall, this volume makes a significant contribution to a neglected field, and will be indispensable as a basis for further work. The authors and editors are to be commended for breaking new ground and crossing disciplinary divides to provide us with exciting new avenues of study on the subject of textiles in a Roman military context. — Britannia Britannia
About the Author
Marie-Louise Nosch is Director of the Danish National Research Foundation’s Centre for Textile Research, University of Copenhagen and Research professor at the SAXO Institute, University of Copenhagen.
