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Early Christian Dress - Gender, Virtue, and Authority (Paperback)
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Early Christian Dress - Gender, Virtue, and Authority (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Ancient History
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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 Christians' 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 women's dress. It examines how Christians
interpreted their dress-especially the dress of female ascetics-as
evidence of Christianity's advanced morality and piety, a morality
and piety that was coded "masculine." Yet even Christian leaders
who championed ascetic women's ability to achieve a degree of
virility in terms of their virtue and spiritual status were
troubled when ascetics' 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.
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