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Mongol Court Dress, Identity Formation, and Global Exchange

By: Eiren L. Shea

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Mongol Court Dress, Identity Formation, and Global Exchange

By: Eiren L. Shea

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.

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1000027899

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Medieval Textiles across Eurasia, c. 300–1400

By: Patricia Blessing,Elizabeth Dospěl Williams,Eiren L. Shea

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Medieval Textiles across Eurasia, c. 300–1400

By: Patricia Blessing,Elizabeth Dospěl Williams,Eiren L. Shea

This study considers the textiles made, traded, and exchanged across Eurasia from late antiquity to the late Middle Ages with special attention to the socio-political and cultural aspects of this universal medium. It presents a wide range of textiles used in both domestic and religious settings, as dress and furnishings, and for elite and ordinary owners. The introduction presents historiographical background to the study of textiles and explains the conditions of their survival in archaeological contexts and museums. A section on the materials and techniques used to produce textiles if followed by those outlining textile production, industry, and trade across Eurasia. Further sections examine the uses for dress and furnishing textiles and the appearance of imported fabrics in European contexts, addressing textiles' functions and uses in medieval societies. Lastly, a concluding section on textile aesthetics connects fabrics to their broader visual and material context.

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1009393383

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Mongol Court Dress, Identity Formation, and Global Exchange

By: Eiren L. Shea

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Mongol Court Dress, Identity Formation, and Global Exchange

Mongol Court Dress, Identity Formation, and Global Exchange

Medieval Textiles across Eurasia, c. 300–1400

Medieval Textiles across Eurasia, c. 300–1400

Mongol Court Dress, Identity Formation, and Global Exchange

Mongol Court Dress, Identity Formation, and Global Exchange

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