Barbara
Köstner

Royal Ontario Museum Michael Lee-Chin Crystal. Bloor Street Entrance.

Barbara
Köstner

Bio

Barbara Köstner is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Bonn in the Department of Christian Archaeology. Her thesis is entitled, “Complex weaving structures in the Roman Empire from Late Roman and Early Medieval times.”

Veronika Gervers Research Fellowship participant
Fellowship Year: 2016

Publications

  • 2017
    Lecture: “The Production of a Fashion Faux Pas: Making Socks for Sandals in Late Roman Times” (11 November 2017). Presented at the conference Cloth Cultures: Legacies of Dorothy K. Burnham, ROM.
  • 2016
    “Wearing Socks in Sandals: The Height of Roman Fashion?” In Small Finds and Ancient Social Practices in the Northwest Provinces of the Roman Empire, edited by Stefanie Hoss and Alissa Whitmore. Oxford; Havertown, PA: Oxbow Books, 2016.

Research projects