Textiles and War in Europe and the Mediterranean from Prehistory to Late Antiquity: Proceedings of the International Conference held at the Institute ... in Bucharest, Romania, 17-19 May 2023

This volume primarily consists of a collection of papers presented at the conference ‘Textiles and War in Europe and the Mediterranean from Prehistory to Late Antiquity’, held in Bucharest in May 2023.Its main goal is to explore the opportunity to establish a new and well-defined direction of academic investigation: the autonomously conceived research of the textile items used or manipulated by prehistoric and ancient armed groups. The book revolves around two central issues. The first is outlining the main sources and methodologies with the potential to provide noteworthy results, starting by sketching a map of the current state of the research in the field.The second is topical and deals with highlighting a few relevant themes that could be tackled, such as particular studies on specific textile items used in the military field, the systems of production and acquisition of garments and other textile materials for the armies, the expression of military rank and status through textile