The silk industry around Naupaktos and its implications
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Gang Wu
Abstract
The silk production around Naupaktos is better documented than other examples of the silk industry in Byzantine Central Greece, especially in terms of its organisation, industrial layout and technical parameters. However, in comparison with its much better-known Theban counterpart, the Naupactian silk industry remains underexplored in current scholarship. This article focuses on synthesising the information about the industry provided by the surviving writings of John Apokaukos, the metropolitan of Naupaktos c.1200-1232. It also seeks to evaluate how the result of this investigation may complement or revise our current knowledge of the silk industry in Byzantine Central Greece.
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- Titelei
- Inhalt
- Siglenverzeichnis
- I. Abteilung
- On the toponymics of the Great Palace of Constantinople: the Daphne
- Late Roman emperorship in Constantinople: embodiment and ‘unbodiment’ of Christian virtues
- Heraclius Constantine III – Emperor of Byzantium (613–641)
- The Arab conquest in Byzantine historical memory: the long view
- Allegorie und Lob der Physik: Das Proömium der Paraphrase des Theodoros Metochites zu naturwissenschaftlichen Schriften des Aristoteles
- A list of village payments and the bouleutic career of Theodoros
- Late Byzantine sigillographic evidence from Cappadocia: lead seals from Kırşehir with a unique overstruck example
- “A statue of bronze, by which times of old used to honor men of rare example”: Materials of honorific statues in Late Antiquity
- Textkritik im Dienste der Wahrheitsfindung? Das VI. Ökumenische Konzil (680/81) und seine Fälschungsnachweise
- Justinianus Eponymus: Überlegungen zur letzten Glanzzeit kaiserlicher Namensverleihungen an Städte
- Islamicate alchemy in Greek letters on the first page of Marcianus graecus 299
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- II. ABTEILUNG
- Pauline Allen / Bronwen Neil. Greek and Latin letters in Late Antiquity. The Christianisation of a literary form
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- David K. Pettegrew / William R. Karaher / Thomas W. Davis (eds.). The Oxford Handbook of early Christian archaeology
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- Totentafel
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