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Clothing and Dress in Rome
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Most of the articles listed below are in the Dig Sites folder on Camino : Files; many of the books are on hard copy reserve at the Circulation Desk in the Learning Commons.
 
Archaeological & Epigraphic Evidence
 
Beard, Mary, John North and Simon Price.  Religions of Rome, vol. 1, A History.   New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. See especially pages xvi-xxiii and 245-388.
 
Denzey, Nicola.  The Bone Gatherers: The Lost Worlds of Early Christian Women.   Boston: Beacon, 2007.
 
Fischler, Susan.  "Social Stereotypes and Historical Analysis: The Case of the Imperial Women at Rome."  In Women in Ancient Societies: "An Illusion of the Night" (ed. Léonie J. Archer, Susan Fischler and Maria Wyke; New York: Routledge, 1994) 115-33.
 
Green, Bernard.  Christianity in Ancient Rome: The First Three Centuries.  New York: T & T Clark, 2010.
 
Olson, Kelly C.  Dress and the Roman Woman: Self-Presentation and Society.  New York: Routledge, 2008.
 
--------.  "Fashioning the Female in Roman Antiquity."  Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Chicago, 1999.
 
Tulloch, Janet H.  "Women Leaders in Family Funerary Banquets."  In Carolyn Osiek and Margaret Y. Macdonald, A Woman's Place: House Churches In Earliest Christianity (Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress, 2005) 164-93, 289-96.
 
Upson-Saia, Kristi.  Early Christian Dress Gender, Virtue, and Authority, Routledge Studies in Ancient History.  New York: Routledge, 2011.
 
 
Literary Evidence
 
Primary Texts
 
Tertullian.  "On the Apparel of Women."  In Tertullian, Part Fourth; Minucius Felix; Commodian; Origen, Parts First and Second (ed. Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson; Ante-Nicene Fathers 4; Peabody, Massachusetts: Hendrickson, 1994; original, Christian Literature Publishing Company, 1885) 14-25.  [In the required readings folder on Camino : Files]
 
 
Secondary Literature
 
Batten, Alicia J.  "Carthaginian Critiques of Adornment."  Journal of Early Christian History 1:1 (2011) 3-21.
 
Calef, Susan A.  "Rhetorical Strategies in Tertullian's 'De Cultu Feminarum.'"  Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Notre Dame, 1997.
 
Daniel-Hughes, Carly.  "'Wear the Armor of Your Shame!': Debating Veiling and the Salvation of the Flesh in Tertullian of Carthage."  Studies in Religion/Sciences religieuses 39:2 (2010) 179-210.
 
Milnor, Kristina Lynn.  "Suis Omnia Tuta Locis: Women, Place, and Public Life in the Age of Augustus."  Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Michigan, 1998.  [Professor has copy]
 
Olson, Kelly.  "Matrona and Whore: Clothing and Definition in Roman Antiquity."  In Prostitutes and Courtesans in the Ancient World (ed. Christopher A. Faraone and Laura K. McClure; Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2006) 186-204.  [In the required readings folder on Camino : Files]
 
Richlin, Amy.  "Pliny’s Brassiere."  In Roman Sexualities (ed. Judith P. Hallett and Marilyn B. Skinner; Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1997) 197-220.
 
Schüssler Fiorenza, Elisabeth.  Excerpt from "The Justice of Wisdom-Sophia: Love Endures Everything—Or Does It?"  In Sharing Her Word: Feminist Biblical Interpretation in Context (Boston: Beacon, 1998) 137-52, 208-212.  [In the required readings folder on Camino : Files]
 
Sebesta, Judith Lynn.  "Women’s Costume and Feminine Civic Morality in Augustan Rome."  In Gender and the Body in the Ancient Mediterranean (ed. Maria Wyke; Gender and History; Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell, 1998) 105-117.
 
Shumka, Leslie Joan.  "Designing Women: Studies in the Representation of Femininity in Roman Society."  Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Victoria, Canada, 2001.
 
Tertullian.  "On the Apparel of Women."  In Tertullian, Part Fourth; Minucius Felix; Commodian; Origen, Parts First and Second (ed. Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson; Ante-Nicene Fathers 4; Peabody, Massachusetts: Hendrickson, 1994; original, Christian Literature Publishing Company, 1885) 14-25.
 
Wyke, Maria.  "Women in the Mirror: The Rhetoric of Adornment in the Roman World."  In Women in Ancient Societies: "An Illusion of the Night" (ed. Léonie J. Archer, Susan Fischler and Maria Wyke; New York: Routledge, 1994) 134-51.
 
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