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Item Number: 128816
Title: Dressing Judeans and Christians in Antiquity
Author: Upson-Saia, Kristi (et al)
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9781472422767
Description: Farnham: Ashgate, 2014. 25cm., hardcover, 292pp., 16 color illus. Contents: Introduction: ‘What shall we wear?’, Alicia J. Batten, Carly Daniel-Hughes, and Kristi Upson Saia. Part 1 Dress and the Social Body: What to wear: women’s adornment and Judean identity in the 3rd century Mishnah, Naftali S. Cohn; Coming apart at the seams: cross-dressing, masculinity, and the social body in late Antiquity, Maria E. Doerfler. Part 2 Dress and Relationality: ‘The holy habit and the teachings of the elders’: clothing and social memory in late Antique monasticism, Rebecca Krawiec; Unravelling the pallium dispute between Gregory the Great and John of Ravenna, Adam Serfass. Part 3 Dress and Character Types: the unibrow that never was: Paul’s appearance in the Acts of Paul and Thecla, Callie Callon; Adorning the protagonist: the use of dress in the Book of Judith, Erin K. Vearncombe. Part 4 Dress and Status Change: A robe like lightning: clothing changes and identification in Joseph and Aseneth, Meredith Warren; Hairiness and holiness in the early Christian desert, Kristi Upson-Saia. Part 5 Dress, Image, and Discourse: Sizing up the philosopher’s cloak: Christian verbal and visual representations of the Tribon, Arthur P. Urbano; Imagining Judean priestly dress: the Berne Josephus and Judea Capta coinage, Joan E. Taylor. Part 6 Dress and Material Realities: Putting on the perfect man: clothing and soteriology in the Gospel of Philip, Carly Daniel-Hughes; The paradoxical pearl: signifying the pearl East and West, Alicia J. Batten.
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