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Early Christian Dress

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Early Christian Dress

Early Christian Dress is the first full-length monograph on the subject of dress in early Christianity. It pays attention to the ways in which dress expressed and shaped Christian identity the role dress played in Christiansâ rivalries with pagan neighbours and especially to the ways in which notions of gender were culled and revised in the process. Although many scholars have argued that gender in late antiquity was a performed and embodied category few have paid attention to the ways in which dress and physical appearances were implicated in the understanding of femininity and masculinity. This study addresses that gap revealing the amount of sartorial work necessary to secure stable gender categories in the worlds of early Imperial pagans and late ancient Christians. This study analyzes several vigorous discussions and debates that arose over Christian womenâs dress. It examines how Christians interpreted their dressâespecially the dress of female asceticsâas evidence of Christianityâs advanced morality and piety a morality and piety that was coded masculine. Yet even Christian leaders who championed ascetic womenâs ability to achieve a degree of virility in terms of their virtue and spiritual status were troubled when asceticsâ dress threatened to materially dissolve gender categories difference and hierarchies. In the end the study enables us to gain a broader view of how gender was constructed perceived and contested in early Christianity. . Language: English
  • Brand: Unbranded
  • Category: Religion
  • Artist: Kristi Upson-Saia
  • Format: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Publication Date: 2011/06/14
  • Publisher / Label: Taylor & Francis
  • Number of Pages: 186
  • Fruugo ID: 337968192-741628315
  • ISBN: 9780415890014

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