Mary Harlow is an Associate Professor in Ancient History at the University of Leicester, UK. She has published extensively on Roman dress and has been an editor and contributor to several of Bloomsbury’s Cultural History series including Children and the Family (2010), Dress and Fashion (2017), Hair (2018) and Shopping (2019). Cécile Michel is a Senior Researcher at CNRS, Archéologie et Science de l’Antiquité, France and Professor of Assyriology at Hamburg University, Germany. She has published books and studies on women, gender studies and ancient textiles including Textile Terminologies (2010 and 2017) Wool Economy in the Ancient Near East and the Aegean (2014) and The Role of Women in Work and Society in the Ancient Near East (2016). Louise Quillien is a Researcher at CNRS, Archéologie et Science de l’Antiquité, France. She defended her PhD on Textiles in Mesopotamia, 1st millennium BC: manufacturing techniques, trade and uses in 2016.
This essential volume provides a much-needed study of textiles, dress, and gender in the ancient world. With its wide chronological and geographical range, it provides students and scholars with useful information from the ancient Near East to late antique Rome in a series of essays that look not only at clothing and textile production, but also at how these categories were almost always cast in terms of gender in antiquity. -- Kelly Olson, Professor of Classical Studies, University of Western Ontario, Canada