Dress and Identity

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This collection of papers on 'Dress and Identity' arose from a seminar series held by the Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity, University of Birmingham in 2005. The present volume covers a wide chronological and geographical span: from archaic Greece to medieval Scotland by way of the Roman Empire and Anglo-Saxon England. The contributors come from a number of different academic disciplines: history, archaeology and classics. Front Cover Title Page Copyright IAA Interdisciplinary Series Studies in Archaeology, History, Literature and Art TABLE OF CONTENTS CONTRIBUTORS CHAPTER 1. DRESS AND IDENTITY: AN INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 2. COSTUME AS TEXT CHAPTER 3. VEILING THE SPARTAN WOMAN CHAPTER 4. DRESSING TO PLEASE THEMSELVES: CLOTHING CHOICES FOR ROMAN WOMEN CHAPTER 5. THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF ADORNMENT AND THE TOILET IN ROMAN BRITAIN AND GAUL CHAPTER 6. DRESS AND CULTURAL IDENTITY IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE CHAPTER 7. INVESTIGATING THE EMPEROR’S TOGA: PRIVILEGING IMAGES ON ROMAN COINS CHAPTER 8. ANGLO-SAXON WOMAN: FAME, ANONYMITY, IDENTITY AND CLOTHING CHAPTER 9. REPRESENTING HIERARCHY AND HOMOSOCIALITY: VESTMENTS AND GENDER IN MEDIEVAL SCOTLAND CHAPTER 10. COSMETICS AND PERFUMES IN THE ROMAN WORLD: A GLOSSARY CHAPTER 11. THE SOCIAL LIFE OF MUSEUM TEXTILES: SOME COMMENTS ON THE LATE ANTIQUE AND EARLY MEDIEVAL COLLECTION IN THE URE MUSEUM AT THE UNIVERSITY OF READING