Robes and Honor

STEWART GORDON is a Research Scientist at the Center for South and Southeast Asian Studies Center, University of Michigan. His books include The Marathas: 1600-1818 and Marathas, Marauders and Sate Formation in Eighteenth-Century India.

Introduction; S.Gordon PART I: THE ANCIENT WORLD Silk, Robes, and Relations Between Early Chinese Dynasties and Nomads Beyond the Wall; X.Liu The Silk Road: Textile and Ceremonial in Sassanid Iran; J.Rose PART II: MEDIEVAL CHRISTIANDOM Robing, Power, and Legitimacy in Ninth-Tenth Century Georgia and Armenia; A.Eastmond & L.Jones The Kings New Clothes: Royal and Episcopal Regalia in the Frankish Empire; M.Moore The Robe of Roger II: Coronation and Legitimacy in the Hapsburg World; W.Tronzo Robing and its Significance in English Mystery Plays; M.Rose Robing, Sculpture, and Relics in Medieval France; J.Snyder The Robe of Simplicity: Initiation, Robing, and Veiling of Nuns in the Middle Ages; D.Koslin From Papal Red to Cardinal Purple: Evolution and Change of Robes at the Papal Court from Innocent III to Leo X, 1216-1521; B.Berthold The Cult of the Robe of Mary; A.Weyl-Carr PART III: MEDIEVAL ISLAM AND EURASIA Robes of Honor of the Abbassids of Baghdad Eighth-Thirteenth Century D.Sourdel Robes of Honor in Ummayid Ceremonial; P.Sanders From Balasaghun to Bukhara, from Ghazni to Delhi: Turko-Mongol Gift-giving in Diplomacy and Ceremonial Bonding; G.Hambly Robing Ceremonials in Late Mamluke Egypt: Hallowed Traditions, Shifting Protocols; C.Petry Sufi Robes (Khirqa) as a Vehicle of Spiritual Authority; J.J.Elias Robing in the Mongolian Empire: 1200AD-1400AD; T.Allsen Killer Khilats: Robing as a Vehicle of Kingly Assassination; M.Maskiel Conclusion; S.Gordon