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Early Christian dress : gender, virtue, and authority / Kristi Upson-Saia.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Upson-Saia, Kristi, 1974-
- Series:
- Routledge studies in ancient history ; 3.
- Routledge studies in ancient history ; 3
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sex role--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Sex role.
- Clothing and dress--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Clothing and dress.
- Women in Christianity--History--Early church, ca. 30-600.
- Women in Christianity.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 171 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- Gender, virtue, and authority
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2011.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Elite Roman women's dress in the early Imperial period
- Scripting Christians' clothing and grooming
- Performance anxiety : dress and gender crises in early Christian asceticism
- Narrating cross-dressing in female saints' lives
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780415890014
- 0415890012
- 9780203806456
- 020380645X
- OCLC:
- 663951786
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