Research Catalog

Title

The salvation of the flesh in Tertullian of Carthage : dressing for the resurrection / Carly Daniel-Hughes.

Author

Daniel-Hughes, Carly, 1974-

Publication

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

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Details

Description

xv, 176 p. : ill.; 22 cm.

Summary

• "Ideal for scholars and students of early Christianity, Dressing for the Resurrection examines Tertullian of Carthage's (160-220 C.E.) writings on dress within Roman vestimentary culture. It employs a socio-historical approach, together with insights from performance theory and feminist rhetorical analysis, to situate Tertullian's comments in the broader context of the Roman Empire, and to investigate them as evidence of the productive and disputed role clothing and adornment played in early Christian life and constructions of salvation"--
• "Why did the influential Christian thinker, Tertullian of Carthage (160-220 C.E.), while addressing the critical issue of salvation of the flesh, write about clothing? Why did he care what Christians wore? Carly Daniel-Hughes answers that in early Christian communities clothing tied to identity and theology. Placing Tertullian's writings in the Roman culture of dress, she shows that in them men's dress is used to envision Christian masculinity as non-Roman and anti-imperial. His concerns about women's dress, however, reveal internal Christian debates about the nature of the flesh and the possibility of its transformation in to a resurrected, glorious body"--

Subject

• Tertullian, approximately 160-approximately 230
• Clothing and dress > Social aspects > Rome
• Clothing and dress > Symbolic aspects > Rome
• Identification (Religion)
• Church history > Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600
• RELIGION / General
• HISTORY / Ancient / General
• RELIGION / History
• RELIGION / Christianity / General

Note

• Based on the author's thesis (Th.D)--Harvard Divinity School, 2008.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: dress in Tertullian of Carthage -- Bodily displays of modesty: or, how to power dress in the Roman World -- The clothing that maketh the Christian man: Tertullian's On the Pallium -- Why is she the "Devi's Gateway"?: debating adornment in Christian Carthage -- Shaming the Virgins' flesh: a contest over veiling.

ISBN

• 9780230117730 (hardback)
• 0230117732 (hardback)

LCCN

^^2011011923

OCLC

• 701020021
• SCSB-12463846

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library