The Nosch Collection
Key Papers by Expert Marie-Louise Nosch on the Analysis of Prehistoric Archaeological Textiles
Will be published approx. on 17. July 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
979-8-88857-259-7 (ISBN)
Description
This fourth title in the new Oxbow Reflections series celebrates the academic career of leading Danish textile history expert Marie-Louise Nosch, as seen through her many contributions to collected works and monographs published by Oxbow Books. In collaboration with the author, we have selected papers that reflect some of the major themes that have been the subject of her long-term research into the understanding and interpretation of many aspects of ancient textile production and use.
Marie-Louise has pioneered inter-disciplinary study of archaeological remains, textile tools, textile terminology in early languages, especially as represented in the Linear B tablets of Mycenaean Greece, representation of dress and textiles in the Classical period and experimental work. She has published meticulously researched contributions, many of them in close collaboration with current and former colleagues and research students, and established the renowned Ancient Textiles series as a collaboration between the Centre for Textile Research in Copenhagen and Oxbow Books. She has edited or commissioned many of the titles in the series.
In these papers we see demonstrated the breadth and development of some of Marie-Louise's key interests and most influential ideas that continue to inspire scholars and stimulate debate.
Marie-Louise has pioneered inter-disciplinary study of archaeological remains, textile tools, textile terminology in early languages, especially as represented in the Linear B tablets of Mycenaean Greece, representation of dress and textiles in the Classical period and experimental work. She has published meticulously researched contributions, many of them in close collaboration with current and former colleagues and research students, and established the renowned Ancient Textiles series as a collaboration between the Centre for Textile Research in Copenhagen and Oxbow Books. She has edited or commissioned many of the titles in the series.
In these papers we see demonstrated the breadth and development of some of Marie-Louise's key interests and most influential ideas that continue to inspire scholars and stimulate debate.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
86 B/W illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
ISBN-13
979-8-88857-259-7 (9798888572597)
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Person
Marie-Louise Nosch is Professor at the SAXO Institute, University of Copenhagen and was the Director of the Danish National Research Foundation's Centre for Textile Research from 2005 to 2017. She studied history in France and Italy and received her PhD from Universitaet Salzburg, Austria. She is recognised as a leading authority on the history and analysis of ancient textiles with specialist interest in Aegean epigraphy, Mycenaean textile production and clothing in ancient Greece. She is the editor of many titles in the Ancient Textiles series.
Content
1. Introduction
2. The Terminology of Textiles in the Linear B Tablets, including Some Considerations on Linear A Logograms and Abbreviations (with Maurizio Del Freo and Francoise Rougemont, from C. Michel and M.-L. Nosch (eds), Textile Terminologies in the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean from the Third to the First Millennia BC. 2010)
3. Textile Terminologies (with Cecile Michel, from C. Michel and M.-L. Nosch (eds), Textile Terminologies in the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean from the Third to the First Millennia BC. 2010)
4. Weaving the Threads: Methodologies in Textile and Dress Research for the Greek and Roman World - The State of the Art and the Case for Cross-disciplinarity (with Mary Harlow, from M. Harlow and M.-L. Nosch (eds), Greek and Roman Textiles and Dress: An Interdisciplinary Anthology. 2014)
5. Experimental Testing of Bronze Age Textile Tools (with Linda Olofsson and Eva Andersson Strand, from E. Andersson Strand and M.-L. Nosch (eds), Tools, Textiles and Contexts: Investigating Textile Production in the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean Bronze Age. 2015)
6. Haute Couture in the Bronze Age (from M. Gleba, C. Munkholt and M.-L. Nosch (eds), Dressing the Past. 2008)
7. The Loom and the Ship in Ancient Greece. Shared Knowledge, Shared Terminology, Cross-Crafts, or Cognitive Maritime-Textile Archaeology? (from H. Harich-Schwarzbauer (ed.), Weben und Gewebe in der Antike: Materialitaet - Repraesentation - Episteme - Metapoetik/Texts and Textiles in the Ancient World: Materiality - Representation - Episteme - Metapoetics. 2015)
8. Mycenaean Wool Economies in the Latter Part of the 2nd Millennium BC Aegean (from C. Michel and C. Breniquet (eds), Wool Economy in the Ancient Near East and the Aegean: From the Beginnings of Sheep Husbandry to Institutional Textile Industry. 2014)
9. Textiles and Clothing Imagery in Greek and Latin Literature: Structuring, Ordering and Dissembling (with Giovanni Fanfani and Mary Harlow, from G. Fanfani, M. Harlow and M.-L. Nosch (eds), Spinning Fates and the Song of the Loom: The Use of Textiles, Clothing and Cloth Production as Metaphor, Symbol and Narrative Device in Greek and Latin Literature. 2016)
2. The Terminology of Textiles in the Linear B Tablets, including Some Considerations on Linear A Logograms and Abbreviations (with Maurizio Del Freo and Francoise Rougemont, from C. Michel and M.-L. Nosch (eds), Textile Terminologies in the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean from the Third to the First Millennia BC. 2010)
3. Textile Terminologies (with Cecile Michel, from C. Michel and M.-L. Nosch (eds), Textile Terminologies in the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean from the Third to the First Millennia BC. 2010)
4. Weaving the Threads: Methodologies in Textile and Dress Research for the Greek and Roman World - The State of the Art and the Case for Cross-disciplinarity (with Mary Harlow, from M. Harlow and M.-L. Nosch (eds), Greek and Roman Textiles and Dress: An Interdisciplinary Anthology. 2014)
5. Experimental Testing of Bronze Age Textile Tools (with Linda Olofsson and Eva Andersson Strand, from E. Andersson Strand and M.-L. Nosch (eds), Tools, Textiles and Contexts: Investigating Textile Production in the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean Bronze Age. 2015)
6. Haute Couture in the Bronze Age (from M. Gleba, C. Munkholt and M.-L. Nosch (eds), Dressing the Past. 2008)
7. The Loom and the Ship in Ancient Greece. Shared Knowledge, Shared Terminology, Cross-Crafts, or Cognitive Maritime-Textile Archaeology? (from H. Harich-Schwarzbauer (ed.), Weben und Gewebe in der Antike: Materialitaet - Repraesentation - Episteme - Metapoetik/Texts and Textiles in the Ancient World: Materiality - Representation - Episteme - Metapoetics. 2015)
8. Mycenaean Wool Economies in the Latter Part of the 2nd Millennium BC Aegean (from C. Michel and C. Breniquet (eds), Wool Economy in the Ancient Near East and the Aegean: From the Beginnings of Sheep Husbandry to Institutional Textile Industry. 2014)
9. Textiles and Clothing Imagery in Greek and Latin Literature: Structuring, Ordering and Dissembling (with Giovanni Fanfani and Mary Harlow, from G. Fanfani, M. Harlow and M.-L. Nosch (eds), Spinning Fates and the Song of the Loom: The Use of Textiles, Clothing and Cloth Production as Metaphor, Symbol and Narrative Device in Greek and Latin Literature. 2016)