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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Kristi Upson-Saia , Carly Daniel-Hughes , Alicia J. BattenPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Edition: New edition Weight: 0.748kg ISBN: 9781472422767ISBN 10: 1472422767 Pages: 328 Publication Date: 20 August 2014 Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Tertiary & Higher Education , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents"Part 1 Dress and The Social Body 1. What to Wear: Women’s Adornment and Judean Identity in the Third Century Mishnah. 2. Coming Apart at the Seams: Cross-dressing, Masculinity, and the Social Body in Late Antiquity. Part 2 Dress and Relationality 3. ""The Holy Habit and the Teachings of the Elders"": Clothing and Social Memory in Late Antique Monasticism. 4. Unraveling the Pallium Dispute between Gregory the Great and John of Ravenna. Part 3 Dress and Character Types 5. The Unibrow That Never Was: Paul’s Appearance in the Acts of Paul and Thecla. 6. Adorning the Protagonist: The Use of Dress in the Book of Judith. Part 4 Dress and Status Change 7. A Robe like Lightning: Clothing Changes and Identification in Joseph and Aseneth. 8. Hairiness and Holiness in the Early Christian Desert. Part 5 Dress, Image, and Discourse 9. Sizing up the Philosopher’s Cloak: Christian Verbal and Visual Representations of the Tribōn. 10. Imagining Judean Priestly Dress: The Berne Josephus and Judaea Capta Coinage. Part 6 Dress and Material Realities 11. Putting on the Perfect Man: Clothing and Soteriology in the Gospel of Philip. 12. The Paradoxical Pearl: Signifying the Pearl East and West."Reviews'This timely and important contribution to the burgeoning field of early Christian dress studies and the study of ancient clothing asks new and exciting questions of the evidence. These innovative essays on everything from monastic dress, cross-dressing men, clothing and social memory, and the appearance of the apostle Paul, to the cultural discourse of female dress, the hairiness of the hermit, clothing and soteriology, and the symbolism of the pearl demonstrate how fundamental the visual was to the ways in which the early Christians constructed social and religious meaning. This volume provides us with fresh interpretations of appearance, religion, and ancient society, and will be invaluable for scholars of early Christian and Classical literature, as well as those interested in social and religious history and the history of appearance.' Kelly Olson, University of Western Ontario, Canada'Dress codes are often more implicit than explicit and are hard to identify and nuance in past societies. This volume explores the language of dress inherent in a range of literary and rhetorical writings among Mediterranean Judean and Christian communities of late antiquity and highlights relationships between the clothed body and the social body, ideas of masculinity and femininity and the worlds of earth and heaven. It offers a new and fascinating dimension to the field of late antique Judaism and Christianity, and to the history of dress' Mary Harlow, University of Leicester, UK Author InformationKristi Upson-Saia is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Occidental College in Los Angeles, USA. Carly Daniel-Hughes is Associate Professor of Religion at Concordia University, Canada. Alicia J. Batten is Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Theology at Conrad Grebel University College at the University of Waterloo, Canada. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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