[48] Pierre Bourdieu, Distinction : A social Critique of the Judgement of Taste (Cambridge:Harvard University Press, 1984),169-175.

[49]Different geography different headscarf: Turban usually in Syria, chasdion or ‘isâba for Armenians, see Timothy Dawson, Property, Practicality and Pleasure: the Parameters of Women’s Dress in Byzantium, A.D.1000-1200,” in Byzantine Women: Varieties of Experience 800-1200, ed. Lynda Garland (Hampshire: Ashgate Publishing Company,2006),45-47.

[50] Ibid.,46.

[51]Ibid.,48.

[52]Ibid.,56-57.

[53]Ibid., 56.

[54]Ibid.,.59.

[55]Ibid.,.50.

[56]Alexander Kazhdan; Annabel Jane Wharton, Change in Byzantine Culture in the Eleventh and Twelfth centuries (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985),76.

[57] Ibid., 76.

[58] Ibid., 78.

[59] Timothy Dawson, Property, Practicality and Pleasure: the Parameters of Women’s Dress in Bzyantium,A.D. 1000-1200,” in Byzantine Women: Varieties of Experience 800-1200, ed. Lynda Garland (Hampshire: Ashgate Publishing Company,2006),51.

[60] Anna Muthesius, Studies in silk in Byzantium (London: Pindar Press, 2004),76.

[61]Sarah T.Brooks, Byzantium: Faith and Power 1261-1557(New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art ; New Haven : Yale University Press, 2004),22

[62] The Mozac hunter silk was probably also an Imperial Byzantine gift sent by the emperor Constantine V in connection with negotiation for the betrothal in 765 of his eldest son Leo to Gisela, daughter of the Latin ruler Pepin. See Anna Muthesius, Studies in silk in Byzantium (London : Pindar Press, 2004),8.

 

[63]Ibid.,8.

[64]Ibid.,9.

[65] Sarah T.Brooks, Byzantium: Faith and Power 1261-1557(New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art ; New Haven : Yale University Press, 2004),24.

[66] Throught the examples the city prefect wore a black and white tunic (chiton);its colours symbolized the judicial axe ,the illegal black being separated from the lawful white. The sebastokrator wore blue shoes and protovestiarios was entitled green shoes. Red sandals and purple garments were the prerogative of the emperor, although by the end of teh twelve century a few g-high officials of the court had the right not only to wear purple themselves,but also to step their horses with it. See Alexander Kazhdan and Annabel Jane Wharton, Change in Byzantine culture in the eleventh and twelfth centuries (Berkeley : University of California Press, 1985),79.

[67]Timothy Dawson, Property, Practicality and Pleasure: the Parameters of Women’s Dress in Bzyantium,A.D.1000-1200,” in Byzantine Women: Varieties of Experience 800-1200, ed. Lynda Garland (Hampshire: Ashgate Publishing Company,2006),48-49.