Posts in Category: Gallo-Roman

Hairstyles of the Rich and Roman…

On October 22, 2012 by thealater With 4 Comments - Gallo-Roman, Merovingian Women

To put the crowning touch (pun absolutely intended) on your Merovingian haute couture ensemble, hair styling is very important. We don’t have a lot of information to go on, but there are some bits of goodness floating around. I found some videos on Roman hairstyles on YouTube and am sharing them with you. They should give you starting points to making Merovingian hairstyles to go with your awesome clothing. Have your slaves watch these videos so they can do your hair correctly.

 

Empress Sabina: Ancient Roman Hairdressing

 

Ancient hairdressing: works in progress


 

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UPDATED: Conjectural clothing construction

On December 12, 2011 by thealater With 5 Comments - Archaeology, Dress and accessories, Gallo-Roman, Textiles, Uncategorized

 

I’m getting ready to draft the pattern for my final garment of the Arnegunde outfit, the outer coat. I’ve finished the embroidery for the front opening and I’ve ordered the gold thread for the cuffs.

There are so few extant garments from this period making it hard to know how they were constructed. This is just a list of websites and resources for information on garment construction (and some other goodies).

Gallo-Roman tunic from Martres de Veyre. 1-2 C.

  • Originally published in <Audollent, A.  (1921) Les tombes des Martres-de-Veyre. Man, 21 (Nov.), 161-164.>
  •  Website in Russian by a woman who recreated the garments

Merovingian

Close up of a seam

A very fuzzy image of the Robe

Carolingian

Viking Age

  • Carolyn Priest-Dorman’s excellent website on Viking Tunic Construction which lists the following locations/eras:
    • Thorsbjerg (Scheleswig-Holstein, Germany), Migration Era;
    • Evebø (Norway), fifth century;
    • Birka (Sweden), ninth and tenth centuries;
    • Bjerringhøj (“Mammen,” Denmark), tenth century;
    • Hedeby (Schleswig-Holstein, Germany), tenth and eleventh centuries;
    • Jorvík (the Danelaw in England) and Dublin (Ireland), tenth and eleventh centuries; and
    • Viborg (Denmark), eleventh century

Persian Caftan

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The beginnings of a Merovingian Material Culture Bibliography

On June 29, 2011 by thealater With 3 Comments - Archaeology, Bibliography, Dress and accessories, Gallo-Roman, Merovingian Women, Textiles

This is by no means an exhaustive listing. But it should give you some starting places to begin your research, or to add to your current research. Eventually, I will have this annotated as I get things translated and assimilated.

If you know of any resources that not listed here, please put them in comments. Thanks!

 

  • Aberg, N., (1922). Die Franken und Westgoten in der Volkenwanderungzeit. Uppsala.
  • Aberg, N., (1923). Die Goten und Langobarden in Italien. Uppsala.
  • Aberg, N., (1945). The Occident and the Orient in the Art of the Seventh Century. Vol. 3, the Merovingian Empire. Stockholm.
  • Alduc-Le Bagousse, Armelle (ed.). Inhumations de prestige ou prestige de linhumation? Expression du pouvoir dans l’au-delà (IVe-XVe siècle). Table ronde du CRAHM 4. Caen : CRAHM, Université de Caen Basse-Normandie, 2009. Pp. 464.
  • Böhme, H. W. (1974). Germanische Grabfunde des 4. bis 5. Jahrhunderts zwischen unterer Elbe und Loire: Studien zur Chronologie und Bevölkerungsgeschichte. Munich.
  • Böhme, H. W. (1986). Das Ende der Römerherrschaft in Britannien und die angelsächsische Besiedlung Englands im 5. Jahrhundert. Jahrbuch des Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum Mainz 33: 469-574.
  • Böhner, K. 1958. Die fränkischen Alterthümer des Trierer Landes. Berlin: Verlag. Gebr. Mann.
  • Brugmann, B. 1999. The role of continental artefact-types in sixth-century Kentish chronology. In The Pace of Change: studies in medieval chronology, eds. Hines, J. Høilund Nielsen, K. and Siegmund, F.. Oxford: Oxbow: 37-64.
  • Brulet, R. 1990. Les fouilles du quartier Saint-Brice à Tournai: l’environnement funéraire de la sépulture de Childéric. Louvain-la-Neuve.
  • Carver, M. O. H. (ed). The Age of Sutton Hoo: the seventh century in north-western Europe. Woodbridge: Boydell Press: **
  • Crowfoot, E. and Hawkes, S.C. 1967. Early Anglo-Saxon gold braids, Medieval Archaeology 11, 42-86.
  • Cutler, Anthony. (Oct., 1997). The right hand’s cunning: Craftsmanship and the demand for art in late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. Speculum, 72(4). 971-994.
  • Evison, V. I. 1965. Fifth-century invasions south of the Thames. London: University of London, The Athlone Press.
  • Farrell, R. and Neumann de Vegvar, C., (eds.) Sutton Hoo: fifty years after. American Early Medieval Studies. Oxford, Ohio: 75-81.
  • Ferdiere, Alain. (1984). Le travail du textile en Region Centre de l’Age du fer au haut Moyen-Age. Revue archeologique du Centre de la France. 23(2). 209-275.
  • Fleury, M. (1963). L’anneau sigillaire de la reine Arnegonde, femme de Clotaire I. Annexe aux Proces-verbaux de la Commission municipale du Vieux Paris (séance du 11 fevrier 1963), p. 5-14.
  • Fleury, M. (1963). L’anneau sigillaire de la reine Arnegonde, femme de Clotaire Ier, decouvert a Saint-Denis, Bulletin de la Societe nationale des Antiquaries de France (séance du 20 favrier 1963), p. 34-42.
  • Fleury, M. and France-Lanord, A. (1961). Les bijoux merovingien d’Arnegonde, Art of France, 1, p. 7-18.
  • Fleury, M. and France-Lanord, A. (1979). Bijoux et parures merovingiens de la reine Aregonde, belle-fille de Clovis, decouverts a Saint-Denis, Dossiers de l’Archeologies, n° 32, janvier-fevrier.
  • Fleury, M. and France-Lanord, A. (1998). Les tresors merovingiens de la basilique de Saint-Denis, G. Klopp, Woippy.
  • France-Lanord, A. (1979). La fouille en labratoire: methode de travail. Les Dossiers de l’Archaeologie. 32. 69-91.
  • France-Lanord, A. and Fleury, M., (1962). Das Grab der Arnegundis in Saint-Denis, Germania, 40, 2, p. 341-359.
  • Gaillard de Semainville, Henri (2003). Nouvelle examen de la plaque-boucle merovingienne de Landelelinus decouverte a Ladoix-Serrigny (Cote d’Or). Revue Archeologique de l’Est. 52. 297-327. (French).
  • Hawkes, S.C. and Dunning, G. 1961. A catalogue of animal-ornamented buckles and related belt fittings. Medieval Archaeology, 5: 1-70.
  • Hodges, R. and Whitehouse, D. 1983. Mohammed, Charlemagne and the origins of Europe. London: Duckworth.
  • Hübener, W. 1981. Eine Studie zu den Beilwaffen der Merowingerzeit. Zeitschrift für Archäologie des Mittelalters 8: 65-127.
  • LaPorte, Jean-Pierre. (1985). Tissus medievaux de Chelles et de Faremoutiers. . Tissu & vetement: 5000 ans de savoir-faire. Musee Archeologique Departmental du Val-d’Oise.
  • Leeds, E.T. 1936. Early Anglo-Saxon art and archaeology. Oxford: The Clarendon Press.
  • Legoux, R., Perin, P, and Vallet, F. (2006). Chronologie normalise du mobilier funeraire merovingingien entre Mance et Lorraine, (n° hors serie du Bulletin de liaison de l’Association francaise d’Archeologie merovingienne), AFAM, Saint-German-en-Laye.
  • Legoux, R., Périn, P. and Vallet, F. 2004. Chronologie normalisée du mobilier funéraire mérovingien entre Manche et Lorraine. Paris: Association francaise d’Archeologie merovingienne .
  • Martin, M. (1991). Zur frümittelalterlichen Gürteltracht de Frau in der Burgundia, Francia, und Aquitania, dans DONNAY, G. (ed), L’Art des invasions en Hongrie et en Wallonie, Actes du colloque de 1979, Musee royal de Mariemont, Bruxelles, p. 31-84.
  • Martin, Max.(2001). Early Merovingian Women’s Brooches. In From Attila to Charlemagne. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. 226-241.
  • Marzinzik, S., 2003. Early Anglo-Saxon belt buckles (late 5th to early 8th centuries A.D.) : their classification and context. Oxford: BAR British series 357.
  • Motteau, James. (1985). L’habillement de la sepulture merovingienne de Perrusson (Indre-et-Loire). Revue archeologique du Centre de la France. 24(2). 256-257.
  • Noble, Thomas F. X. Julia M. H. Smith. (1997). The Carolingians: An English Language Bibliography
  • Perin, P., (1991). Pour une revision de la datation de la tombe d’Arego nde, espouse de Clotaire Ier, decouverte en 1959 dans la basilique de Saint-Denis, Archeologie medievale, XXI, p. 21-50.
  • Perin, P., (1991). Quelques considerations sur la basilique de Saint-Denis et sa necropole a l’epoque merovingienne, dans DUVOSQUEL J.-M. And DIERKENS A. (eds), Villes et campagnes au Moyen Age. Melanges Georges Despy, Editions du Perron, Liege, p. 599-624.
  • Perin, P., Calligro, T., avec la coll. De Buchet, L., Cassiman, J.-J., Darton, Y., Gallien, V., Poirot, J.-P., Rast, A., Rucker, C., and Vallet, F. (2007). La tombe d’Aregonde. Ouvelles analyses en labratoire du mobilier metallique et des restes organiques de la defunte du sarcophage 49 de la basilique de Saint-Denis, Antiquites nationales, 37, (2005), p. 181-206.
  • Perin, Patrick (2000). Aspects of late Merovingian costume in the Morgan Collection. In From Attila to Charlemagne: arts of the early Medieval period in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art . 242-267.
  • Procopius. History of the Gothic Wars.
  • Rast-Eicher, Antoinette. (2010). Garment for a queen. North European Symposium for Archaeological Textiles X. 208-210.
  • Riché, Pierre, (1996). Dictionnaire des Francs: les temps mérovingiens (Etrépilly). 944.01303 R397D STX.
  • Rogers, P. W. 2007. Cloth and clothing in early Anglo-Saxon England, AD 450-700. York: CBA Research Report 145.
  • Roth, H. (1986) Zweifel an Aregunde, Marburger Studien zur Vor- und Fruhgesichichte, 7, p. 267-276.
  • Schulze, M. (1976). Einflusse byzantinischer Prunkgewander auf die frankische Frauentracht, Archeologhische Korrespondanzblatt, 6,2, p. 149-161.
  • Sørensen, P. 1997. Jutes in Kent? Consideration of the problem of ethnicity in southern Scandinavia and Kent in the Migration Period, in Method and Theory in Historical Archaeology (Papers of the ‘Medieval Europe Brugge 1997’ Conference), eds. De Boe, G. and Verhaege, F. Zellik: 165-73.
  • Soulat, J. 2009. Le matériel archéologique de type Saxon et Anglo-Saxon en Gaule Mérovingienne. Paris: Tome XX des Mémoires publiés par l’Association française d’Archéologie mérovingienne.
  • Thillaud, P., (1993). L’Age au deces de la reine Aregonde, espouse de Clotiaire Ier, d’apres, une nouvelle expertise osteoarcheologiques, Cahiers de la Rotunde, 14, p. 169-172.
  • Vielitz, K. (2003). Die Grantscheifibeln der Merowingerzeit, (Europe medievale, 3), Editions Monique Mergoil, Montagnac.
  • Von Armin Volkmann and Theune, claudia. (2001). Millefiori beads from the Merovingian period of middle Europe. Ethnographisch-Archaologische Zeitschrift. 42(4). 521-553. (German).
  • Welch, M. 1991. Contacts across the Channel between the Fifth and Seventh Centuries : a review of the archaeological evidence. Studien zur Sachsenforschung 7: 261-269.
  • Wood, I. 1992. Frankish hegemony in England. In Carver, M. O. H. (ed). The Age of Sutton Hoo: the seventh century in north-western Europe. Woodbridge: Boydell Press: 235-241.

And here’s a gratuitous picture because it’s purty.

Disc brooch from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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Books on Roman textile production

On May 7, 2011 by thealater With 0 Comments - Archaeology, Books, Gallo-Roman, Roman, Textiles

In studying archaeological textiles, it helps to track back the the technology and social influences on your chosen fiber culture. For the Merovingians, their direct descendants were both the vast Roman linen estates in Gaul and the Sassanian silk weaving houses. John Peter Wild wrote a book on Roman textiles and also inspired others to write another book on the influence Roman textiles.

J. P. Wild. (1970) Textile Manufacture in the Northern Roman Provinces. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

and this is the book it inspired…

Penelope Walton Rogers, Lise Bender Jorgensen, Antoinette Rast-Eicher, (2001). The Roman Textile Industry and its Influence. A Birthday tribute to John Peter Wild.   Exeter:  Oxbow Books, 2001.

  • Read a review by Margarita Gleba, Bryn Mawr College, Department of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology

Going back even further, we have a book on Pre-Roman Italian textile production. (Yes, the author of the previous review)

Gleba, M. (2008): Textile production in pre-Roman Italy. Oxford: Oxbow.

 

And while we’re on the subject of ancient Roman textile production, here’s a decent bibliography which should give you a good start. It’s not exclusively Roman or Merovingian (but we won’t hold that against them!)

and look over there! Sassanian textiles!

Gallo-Roman stuff

On March 22, 2011 by thealater With 0 Comments - Gallo-Roman, Museums & Institutes, Textiles

There are a number of graves from les Martres de Veyre that have yielded textile finds, including some amazing complete garments. Now, I may not a chance to travel over there to see the artifacts, but luckily, others are luckier… and they post their photographs on the intarwebz,

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