Dressing Judeans and Christians in Antiquity
Author | : Dr Alicia J Batten |
Publisher | : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2014-08-28 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781472422767 |
ISBN-13 | : 1472422767 |
Rating | : 4/5 (767 Downloads) |
Download or read book Dressing Judeans and Christians in Antiquity written by Dr Alicia J Batten and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2014-08-28 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume aims to understand religious aspects of dress in the ancient world by examining a diverse range of religious sources, including literature, art, performance, coinage, economic markets, and memories. Contributors demonstrate how dress developed as a topos within Judean and Christian rhetoric, symbolism, and performance, and show how religious meanings were entangled with other social logics, revealing the many layers of meaning attached to ancient dress, as well as the extent to which dress was implicated in numerous domains of religious life.