Published in Languages and Cultures in Tradition

This research analyses, through the costumes of the Byzantine court and elite, the historical context in which they were inserted, as well as the political and religious influences on their creation. Thus, the investigation aims to identify what the symbols and signs that combined the styles of clothing worn during the Byzantine Empire were, how they were represented and what they had. To this end, the methods used to prepare this bibliographic research permeate a theoretical and descriptive approach of an exploratory nature, whose outline is broken down into a qualitative analysis of the data. In addition, theoretical bases of scholars of Byzantinism and fashion historians were researched and proven, in addition to photographs of accessories from the Byzantine period, purchased from the Victoria and Albert Museum. For the Byzantine Empire, the development of industries and their adornments were extremely important for the understanding of the structural elements that made up the determinations controlled by the dual government between the State and the Church.