Roman Dress and the Fabrics of Roman Culture / / Jonathan Edmondson; ed. by Alison Keith.

• VerfasserIn: Edmondson, Jonathan,
• MitwirkendeR: Bradley, Keith,; Brennan, T. Corey,; Carter, Michael,; Dewar, Michael,; Dolansky, Fanny,; Edmondson, Jonathan,; Faber, Riemer,; Fantham, Elaine,; George, Michele,; Keith, Alison,; Koortbojian, Michael,; Métraux, Guy P.R.,; Olson, Kelly,; Shumka, Leslie,
• HerausgeberIn: Keith, Alison,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Phoenix Supplementary Volumes ; 46
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (440 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; PREFACE --; CONTRIBUTORS --; LIST OF FIGURES --; ABBREVIATIONS --; Introduction: From Costume History to Dress Studies --; PART I Investments in Masculinity --; 1. Public Dress and Social Control in Late Republican and Early Imperial --; 2. Togam virilem sumere: Coming of Age in the Roman World --; 3. The Double Identity of Roman Portrait Statues: Costumes and Their Symbolism at Rome --; 4. The 'Dark Side' of the Toga --; 5. (Un)Dressed to Kill: Viewing the Retiarius --; PART II Fashioning the Female --; 6. The Appearance of the Young Roman Girl --; 7. Covering the Head at Rome: Ritual and Gender --; 8. Designing Women: The Representation of Women's Toiletries on Funerary Monuments in Roman Italy --; 9. Sartorial Elegance and Poetic Finesse in the Sulpician Corpus --; PART III The Cultural Poetics of Dress --; 10. The Woven Garment as Literary Metaphor: The Peplos in Ciris 9-41 --; 11. Spinning the Trabea: Consular Robes and Propaganda in the Panegyrics of Claudian --; 12. Appearing for the Defence: Apuleius on Display --; 13. Tertullian's De Pallio and Roman Dress in North Africa --; 14. Prudery and Chic in Late Antique Clothing --; REFERENCES --; INDEX LOCORUM --; GENERAL INDEX
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781442689039
• DOI: 10.3138/9781442689039
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Jonathan Edmondson; ed. by Alison Keith.

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. Editors Jonathan Edmondson and Alison Keith and the contributors to this volume explore the diffusion of Roman dress protocols at Rome and in the Roman imperial context by looking at Rome's North African provinces in particular, a focus that previous studies have overlooked or dealt with only in passing. Another unique aspect of this collection is that it goes beyond the male elite to address a wider spectrum of Roman society. Chapters deal with such topics as masculine attire, strategies for self-expression for Roman women within a dress code prescribed by a patriarchal culture, and the complex dynamics of dress in imperial Roman culture, both literary and artistic. This volume further investigates the literary, legal, and iconographic evidence to provide anthropologically-informed readings of Roman clothing.This collection of original essays employs a range of methodological approaches - historical, literary critical, philological, art historical, sociological and anthropological - to offer a thorough discussion of one of the most central issues in Roman culture.