Le vêtement dans les sources juridiques du Bas-Empire

This article surveys the laws of the Late Empire concerned with textiles, dress and dressing sellers. They relate to the private life (components of patrimony, sale, bequest), confiscations, fiscal supplies (levy and distribution of military uniform), restricting the use of textiles or garments such as those which the emperor alone was permitted to wear (paragauds, silk, purple) or prohibiting the use of barbarian dress in Rome. Unfortunately, the Codes’ main focus is on repressing what is forbidden, while telling hardly anything about protocol and statutary dress.