Clothes and Monasticism in Ancient Christian Egypt: A New Perspective on Religious Garments

ISBN-13: 9780367505486 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 204 str.

Ingvild Saelid Gilhus

Opis

This book is an exploration of the ideals and values of the ascetic and monastic life, as expressed through clothes.

Spis treści

1 Introduction; 2 Heroes in the Wilderness: The Mythical Background; 3 Clothes and the Construction of the Monastic World; 4 Interacting with the Habit; 5 Molding Monastic Minds and Memories; 6 The Economy of Salvation and the Economy of this World; 7 Prelapsarian Nakedness and Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing; 8 Dressing Death, Clothing Eternity; 9 Epilogue; Bibliography

O autorze

Ingvild Sælid Gilhus is Professor of the Study of Religion, University of Bergen, Norway. She works in the areas of religion in late antiquity and New Age religion. Her publications include Laughing Gods, Weeping Virgins (Routledge 1997); Animals, Gods and Humans: Changing Attitudes to Animals in Greek, Roman and Early Christian Ideas (Routledge 2006), Evolution, Cognition, and the History of Religion: A New Synthesis (edited with Anders K. Petersen, Luther H. Martin, Jeppe S. Jensen, and Jesper Sørensen, 2019) and The Archangel Michael in Africa: History, Cult, and Persona (edited with Alexandros Tsakos and Marta Camilla Wright, 2019).