Kristi Upson-Saia

Early Christian Dress (eBook, ePUB)

Gender, Virtue, and Authority

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This 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 Christians' rivalries with pagan neighbours, and especially to the ways in which notions of gender were culled and revised in the process.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 186
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Februar 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136655401
• Artikelnr.: 38268969

Autorenporträt

Kristi Upson-Saia is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Occidental College. She specializes in the history and literature of early Christianity, with a focus on the ways in which early Christian identities were constructed through bodily appearances and performances. Her research interests also include gender and sexuality, orthodoxy and heresy, and, representations of deformed, scarred, and stigmatized bodies.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Elite Roman Women's Dress in the Early Imperial Period 2.
Scripting Christians' Clothing and Grooming 3. Performance Anxiety: Dress
and Gender Crises in Early Christian Asceticism 4. Narrating Cross-Dressing
in Female Saints' Lives Conclusion