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Tang Dynasty: Archaeological Finds
A Brief Report of the Excavation of Kang Wentong’s Tomb, Tang Dynasty https://doi.org/10.1515/CHAR.2006.6.1.105 Xi’an Institute of...
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Nov 20, 20221 min read


Tang Dynasty Textiles
A Study on the Cultural Exchange of the Weaving Skills and Patterns Witnessed in Geum-textiles between East and West from Ancient Times...
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Nov 14, 20223 min read


Khazar: General Info
Armies of the Volga Bulgars & Khanate of Kazan: 9th–16th centuries Book Shpakovsky, Vlacheslav and David Nicolle Byzantine...
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Nov 5, 20222 min read


Balkans: General Info
A History of the Balkan Peoples Ristelhueber, Rene Book Byzantium's Balkan Frontier: A Political Study of the Northern...
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Oct 30, 20222 min read


Abbasid Caliphate: General Information
A Significant of Bayt al-Hikmah in Development of Scientific Work in Abbasids Period and Downfall of this Revolutionary Institute ...
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Oct 23, 20221 min read


Medieval England: Plantagenet Court Life
Age of Chivalry: Art in Plantagenet England 1200-1400 Book Alexander, Jonathan, and Binski, Paul, eds Armies of the Plantagenet...
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Oct 16, 20221 min read


H0ly Roman Empire: Ottonian Dynasty 919-1024
Church and cosmos in early Ottonian Germany: the view from Cologne Mary-Hartin, H Book Civilians and militia in Ottonian Germany ...
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Oct 10, 20221 min read


Ostrogoths: General Info
A History of the Ostrogoths Burns, Thomas S Book ‘Byzantines, Goths and Lombards in Italy: Jewellery, dress and cultural...
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Oct 2, 20221 min read


Byzantine Sex & Gender
Approaches to the Byzantine Family Brubaker, Leslie and Shaun Tougher Book Brothels, Baths and Babes Prostitution in the Byzantine...
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Sep 25, 20221 min read


Mongol: General Info
Thank you to Lady Sechen Tartar-Un of Calontir for her contributions to this bibliography. A Mongolian Era Female Headdress from the...
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Sep 18, 20223 min read


Sex and Gender in the Abbasid Caliphate
Caliphal Harems, Household Harems: Baghdad in the Fourth Century of the Islamic Era Book El-Chiekh, Nadia Maria Concubines...
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Sep 12, 20221 min read


Roman Era Egyptian Textiles
Click on the links to see more images and info at the museums' websites. *In putting together this post I noticed several weaving terms...
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Sep 5, 202213 min read


Viking Textiles: Norway
Dyes and Wools in Iron Age Textiles from Norway and Denmark Walton, Penelope https://doi.org/10.1080/0108464X.1988.1059...
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Aug 28, 20221 min read


Heian Era Japan: Textiles
A Study of the Clothes Phenomenon of the Heian Period of Japan https://koreascience.kr/article/JAKO201023659447411.page ...
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Aug 21, 20221 min read


Sex and Gender: Heian Japan
Aesthetics of Womanhood in Heian Japan Hunter, Rebekah A pdf Childbirth in...
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Aug 15, 20221 min read


Japanese Tea Ceremony
Thank you to Lady Kitsu Kotome for her input on search terms for this topic. Before Rikyū. Religious and Aesthetic Influences in the...
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Jul 31, 20221 min read


Late Imperial Roman Glass Beads (images)
3rd - 4th Century. Gotland, Sweden. Glass bead of a glodular shape is made in a millefiori technique. The colours alternate from yellow...
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Jul 24, 20222 min read


Early - Imperial Roman Glass Beads (images)
Click on the links to learn to visit the museum website. 250 BC through 99 AD. Early Roman Empire. 2 mosaic beads. Overall L: 2.1 cm....
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Jul 17, 20224 min read


Undated Roman Glass Beads (images)
Click the links for more Glasgow Hills, Roman British. Hexagonal-sectioned bead in marbled green-and-yellow glass. The surface is...
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Jul 11, 20227 min read


10th - 16th Century Textiles: Egypt (images)
Images from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Click the LInks to see more. 11th Century. Attributed to Egypt. Linen and silk; plain weave,...
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Jun 6, 20225 min read
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