A Cultural History of Furniture in Antiquity

Buch | Hardcover

296 Seiten

2024
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-4725-7776-4 (ISBN)

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Covering the period from 2500 BCE to the Byzantine Era, this volume focuses on the social history of furniture found in houses, tombs and temples as narrated through the archaeological evidence. The earliest furniture can be seen as an attempt by humans to enhance their safety, comfort and social standing but it can also offer opportunities for understanding human behavior, values and thought: fine furniture was among the most valuable of possessions in the ancient world so it expressed power, wealth and status. It was appreciated as art, used in diplomacy (both as a gift and as tribute) and recorded as booty. At the same time, its practical and ceremonial uses yield important clues about the domestic environment and daily life in antiquity, as well as revealing aspects of sacred belief and funerary practices.

Drawing upon a wealth of visual and textual sources, this volume presents essays that examine key characteristics of the furniture of the period on the themes of Design and Motifs; Makers, Making, and Materials; Types and Uses; The Domestic Setting; The Public Setting; Exhibition and Display; Furniture and Architecture; Visual Representations; and Verbal Representations.

Dimitra Andrianou is Researcher at the National Hellenic Research Foundation and the Institute of Greek and Roman Antiquity, Greece.

List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Series Preface

Introduction, Dimitra Andrianou

1. Design and Motifs, Elizabeth Simpson and Geoffrey Killen
2. Makers, Making, and Materials, Vassilis Petrakis and Maria Leontsini
3. Types and Uses, Geoffrey Killen, Elizabeth Simpson, and Stephan T. A. M. Mols
4. The Domestic Setting, Vassilis Petrakis, Barbara Tsakirgis, Dimitra Andrianou, and Platon Petridis
5. The Public Setting, Vassilis Petrakis and Platon Petridis
6. Exhibition and Display, Vassilis Petrakis, Jean Turfa, and Dimitra Andrianou
7. Furniture and Architecture, Stephan T.A.M. Mols
8. Visual Representations, Vassilis Petrakis, A. Chatzidimitriou, and S. Feuser
9. Verbal Representations, Vassilis Petrakis, Dimitra Andrianou, and Ilias Anagnostakis

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Erscheinungsdatum	07.06.2017
Reihe/Serie	The Cultural Histories Series
Zusatzinfo	40 colour and 41 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	169 x 244 mm
Gewicht	1000 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Design / Innenarchitektur / Mode
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
ISBN-10	1-4725-7776-0 / 1472577760
ISBN-13	978-1-4725-7776-4 / 9781472577764
Zustand	Neuware