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" Worldly Adornments: Women's Precious Metal Jewelry in the Early Medieval Eastern Mediterranean (500-1100 CE) "
Elizabeth Dospel Williams
Flood, Finbarr B.; Thomas, Thelma K.
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Latin Dissertation
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English
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803574
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TL48367
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1710777539; 3716512
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Nisanci, Zubeyir
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Worldly Adornments: Women's Precious Metal Jewelry in the Early Medieval Eastern Mediterranean (500-1100 CE)\ Elizabeth Dospel WilliamsFlood, Finbarr B.; Thomas, Thelma K.
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New York University
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2015
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Ph.D.
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Institute of Fine Arts
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2015
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391
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Committee members: Evans, Helen C.
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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-95399-2
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Silver and gold jewelry counted among women’s most precious possessions in the Byzantine and early Islamic eastern Mediterranean. Such adornments figure prominently in texts, and numerous examples have been found in recent excavations. Most scholarship on such jewelry focuses on the dating of individual pieces and on identifying centers of production; yet such studies are fundamentally frustrated by the objects themselves, which resist easy classification. In this dissertation, a different methodology is presented, which weaves together texts, objects, and visual representations to explore thematic issues, including concerns about appearance, the preservation and presentation of wealth, taste-making, and idealized beauty.
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Archaeology; Art history
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Social sciences;Communication and the arts;Adornment;Byzantine jewelry;Islamic jewelry;Jewelry;Ornaments;Precious metals
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Flood, Finbarr B.; Thomas, Thelma K.
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Institute of Fine ArtsNew York University
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