Dress in Mediterranean antiquity : Greeks, Romans, Jews, Christians / edited by Alicia J. Batten and Kelly Olson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Batten, Alicia J., editor.

Olson, K. (Kelly), editor.

Bloomsbury (Firm)

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Clothing and dress--Mediterranean Region--History--To 500.

Clothing and dress.

Clothing and dress--Mediterranean Region--Religious aspects.

Clothing and dress--Symbolic aspects--Mediterranean Region.

Clothing and dress--Symbolic aspects.

History.

Mediterranean Region.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

polychrome

Place of Publication:

London, UK ; New York, NY : T&T Clark, 2021.

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [2021]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

PrefaceAcknowledgementsAbbreviationsIntroduction

Alicia J. Batten, Conrad Grebel University College, University of Waterloo, Canada and Kelly Olson, Western University, CanadaSection A

Methods1. Dress and Classical Studies

Kelly Olson, Western University, Canada2. Dress and Religious Studies

Alicia J. Batten, Conrad Grebel University College, University of Waterloo, Canada3. Dress and Anthropology

Lynne Hume, University of Queensland, Australia4. Dress and Sociology

Beth E. Graybill, Dickinson College, USASection B

Materials5. Clothing in Marble and Bronze: The Representation of Dress in Greek and Roman Sculpture

Glenys Davies, University of Edinburgh, UK6. Greek Dress from the Inscriptional Evidence

Laura Gawlinski, Loyola University of Chicago, USA7. The Colours of Ancient Greek dress

Cecilie Brøns, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Denmark8. Ancient Jewelry and the Construction of Ancient Identity

Courtney Ward, Norwegian Institute in Rome, Italy9. Dress in the Desert: Archaeological Textiles as a Source for Work Clothes in Roman Egypt

Lise Bender Jorgensen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway10. Roman Women Dressing the Part: The Visual Vocabulary from Paintings and Mosaics

Lisa A. Hughes, University of Calgary, Canada11. "They Leave Behind them Portraits of their Wealth, not Themselves:" Aspects of Self-presentation in the Dress of the Deceased in Mummy Portraits and Portrait Mummies from Roman Egypt

Lorelei H. Corcoran, University of Memphis, USASection C

Meanings12. Dress and Ceremony in Achaemenid Persia: the 'Gaunaka'

Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones, Cardiff University, Wales13. Hair and Social Status in the Near East and Early Greece, c. 900-300 BCE

Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones, Cardiff University, Wales14. Stepping over the line: shoes and boundary-crossing in ancient Greece

Sue Blundell, Independent Scholar15. Clothing in Roman Religion

Kelly Olson, Western University, Canada16. Andromeda Unbound: Possession, Perception, and Adornment in the House of the Dioscuri -Neville McFerrin, University of North Texas, USA17. From Grass to Gold: The Ambivalent Symbolism of Roman Crowns

Andrew Gallia, University of Minnesota, USA18. Clothes Make the Jew: Was There Distinctive Jewish Dress in the Greco-Roman Period?

Joshua Schwartz, Bar-Ilan University, Israel19. What did Mary Magdalene Look Like? Images from the West, the East, Dura and Judaea

Joan E. Taylor, King's College London, UK20. Robes of Transfiguration and Salvation in Early Christian Texts

Janelle Peters, Loyola Marymount University, USA21. Worn stories: (ad)dressing wives in 1 Peter

Kelsi Morrison-Atkins, Harvard University, USA22. 'Exposed!': Nakedness and Clothing in the Book of Revelation'

Harry Maier, Vancouver School of Theology, Canada23. Dirty Laundry in the Christ Cult

Alicia J. Batten, Conrad Grebel University College, University of Waterloo, Canada24. 'He Must Buy Her New Clothes for Winter': Women's Attire in the Rabbinic Imagination of the Tannaitic Period

Gail Labovitz, American Jewish University, USA25. Textual Problems in Textile Research: The Use of the Talmud in Studies of Ancient Jewish Dress

Katie Turner, King's College London, UKIndex.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 22, 2021).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Other Format:

Print version: Dress in Mediterranean antiquity

ISBN:

9780567684660

0567684660

9780567684684

0567684687

Publisher Number:

99988450901

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