Introduction: From Costume History to Dress Studies

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. PREFACE vii
4. CONTRIBUTORS ix
5. LIST OF FIGURES xi
6. ABBREVIATIONS xvii
7. Introduction: From Costume History to Dress Studies 1
8. PART I Investments in Masculinity
9. 1. Public Dress and Social Control in Late Republican and Early Imperial 21
10. 2. Togam virilem sumere: Coming of Age in the Roman World 47
11. 3. The Double Identity of Roman Portrait Statues: Costumes and Their Symbolism at Rome 71
12. 4. The ‘Dark Side’ of the Toga 94
13. 5. (Un)Dressed to Kill: Viewing the Retiarius 113
14. PART II Fashioning the Female
15. 6. The Appearance of the Young Roman Girl 139
16. 7. Covering the Head at Rome: Ritual and Gender 158
17. 8. Designing Women: The Representation of Women’s Toiletries on Funerary Monuments in Roman Italy 172
18. 9. Sartorial Elegance and Poetic Finesse in the Sulpician Corpus 192
19. PART III The Cultural Poetics of Dress
20. 10. The Woven Garment as Literary Metaphor: The Peplos in Ciris 9–41 205
21. 11. Spinning the Trabea: Consular Robes and Propaganda in the Panegyrics of Claudian 217
22. 12. Appearing for the Defence: Apuleius on Display 238
23. 13. Tertullian’s De Pallio and Roman Dress in North Africa 257
24. 14. Prudery and Chic in Late Antique Clothing 271
25. REFERENCES 295
26. INDEX LOCORUM 331
27. GENERAL INDEX 353