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Roman Dress and the Fabrics of Roman Culture

by: Edmondson, J. Keith, A.

Price: 89,00 EURO

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Category: Roman History
Code: 9782
ISBN-13: 9780802093196 / 978-0-8020-9319-6
ISBN-10: 0802093191 / 0-8020-9319-1
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Publication Date: 2008
Publication Place: Toronto
Binding: Cloth
Pages: 370
Book Condition: New
Comments: Phoenix Supplementary Volumes

 Roman Dress and the Fabrics of Roman Culture
Jonathan Edmondson
Edited by: Alison Keith
Volume 46 in the series Phoenix Supplementary Volumes

About this book
Roman Dress and the Fabrics of Roman Culture investigates the social symbolism and cultural poetics of dress in the ancient Roman world in the period from 200 BCE-400 CE.

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

PREFACE

CONTRIBUTORS

LIST OF FIGURES

ABBREVIATIONS

Introduction: From Costume History to Dress Studies

Jonathan Edmondson and Alison Keith
PART I INVESTMENTS IN MASCULINITY
1. Public Dress and Social Control in Late Republican and Early Imperial

Jonathan Edmondson
2. Togam virilem sumere: Coming of Age in the Roman World

Fanny Dolansky
3. The Double Identity of Roman Portrait Statues: Costumes and Their Symbolism at Rome

Michael Koortbojian
4. The ?Dark Side? of the Toga

Michele George
5. (Un)Dressed to Kill: Viewing the Retiarius

Michael Carter
PART II FASHIONING THE FEMALE
6. The Appearance of the Young Roman Girl

Kelly Olson
7. Covering the Head at Rome: Ritual and Gender

Elaine Fantham
8. Designing Women: The Representation of Women?s Toiletries on Funerary Monuments in Roman Italy

Leslie Shumka
9. Sartorial Elegance and Poetic Finesse in the Sulpician Corpus

Alison Keith
PART III THE CULTURAL POETICS OF DRESS
10. The Woven Garment as Literary Metaphor: The Peplos in Ciris 9–41

Riemer Faber
11. Spinning the Trabea: Consular Robes and Propaganda in the Panegyrics of Claudian

Michael Dewar
12. Appearing for the Defence: Apuleius on Display

Keith Bradley
13. Tertullian?s De Pallio and Roman Dress in North Africa

T. Corey Brennan
14. Prudery and Chic in Late Antique Clothing

Guy P.R. Métraux
REFERENCES

INDEX LOCORUM

GENERAL INDEX

 
 
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Roman Dress and the Fabrics of Roman Culture

by: Edmondson, J. Keith, A.

  • ISBN-13: 9780802093196 / 978-0-8020-9319-6
  • ISBN-03: 0802093191 / 0-8020-9319-1
  • University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 2008

Price: 89,00 EURO

1 copy in stock
 

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