While studies of clothing, bodily adornment and the body language of antiquity are becoming more frequent, a volume that considers the role of religious dress and the religious meanings of dress among Jews and Christians takes this research in new directions. The collective nature of this project has produced a series of very stimulating and inter-connected papers which offer much to a number of different audiences: dress historians, ancient historians; historians of religion as well as those interested in cultural studies more generally; philologists and linguists.

Kristi Upson-Saia, Carly Daniel-Hughes, Alicia J. Batten, eds. Dressing Judeans and Christians in Antiquity. Ashgate, 2014.

From Reviews in History. Review by Mary Harlow, University of Leicester