Chapter 1 A World of Investiture

Chapter 2 Silk, Robes, and Relations Between Early Chinese Dynasties and Nomads Beyond the Great Wall

Chapter 3 Sasanian Splendor: The Appurtenances of Royalty

Chapter 4 Threads of Authority: The Virgin Mary’s Veil in the Middle Ages

Chapter 5 The King’s New Clothes: Royal and Episcopal Regalia in the Frankish Empire

Chapter 6 Robes of Honor in ‘Abbasid Baghdad During the Eighth to Eleventh Centuries

Chapter 7 Robing, Power, and Legitimacy in Armenia and Georgia

Chapter 8 From Baghdad to Bukhara, from Ghazna to Delhi: The Khil‘a Ceremony in the Transmission of Kingly Pomp and Circumstance

Chapter 9 Robes of Honor in Fatimid Egypt

Chapter 10 The Mantle of Roger II of Sicily

Chapter 11 The Robe of Simplicity: Initiation, Robing, and Veiling of Nuns in the Middle Ages

Chapter 13 The Regal Significance of the Dalmatic: The Robes of Le Sacre as Represented in Sculpture of Northern Mid-Twelfth-Century France

Chapter 14 Robing in the Mongolian Empire

Chapter 15 From Papal Red to Cardinal Purple: Evolution and Change of Robes at the Papal Court from Innocent III to Leo X, 1216–1521

Chapter 16 Robing and Its Significance in English Mystery Plays

Chapter 17 Robing Ceremonials in Late Mamluk Egypt: Hallowed Traditions, Shifting Protocols

Chapter 18 Robes, Kings, and Semiotic Ambiguity