Marie-Louise Nosch,Henriette Koefoed's Wearing the Cloak: Dressing the Soldier in Roman Times PDF

By Marie-Louise Nosch,Henriette Koefoed

Wearing the Cloak comprises 9 stimulating chapters on Roman army textiles and gear that take fabric learn to a brand new point. listen the sounds of the Roman infantrymen' clacking belts and get a view on their buy orders with Egyptian weavers. may well armour be outfitted of linen? Who had entry to what sorts of prestigious gear? And what clothing and guns have been deposited in toilets on the fringe of the Roman Empire? The authors draw upon a number of assets resembling unique textual and scriptural proof, historical artworks and iconography, and archaeological files and reveals. The chapters hide - as did the Roman military - a wide geographical span: Egypt, the Levant, the Etruscan heartland and northern Europe. prestige, status and entry are considered within the mild of economic and social capacities and support shed new gentle at the realities of a soldier's lifestyles in the Roman world.

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Donning the Cloak includes 9 stimulating chapters on Roman army textiles and gear that take fabric learn to a brand new point. listen the sounds of the Roman squaddies' clacking belts and get a view on their buy orders with Egyptian weavers. might armour be outfitted of linen? Who had entry to what forms of prestigious gear?

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