... Simeon the Elder sung sermons piyyutim Syrian martyrdom Basil of Caesarea saint Price Daniel Sidney Philip Sidney Herbert Mary Harvey Susan Ashbrook cento “patchwork” poem Eudocia empress Homer Jerome metaphors “patchwork” poem cento asceticism bodies—theology clothing—cultural studies...

...What is lowered down must also be raised up. Descent includes also ascent. So it is also with separation and unification. Clothes confirm separateness, but also the return to oneness, which is the source of love. As long as the world is a veil in which everything is acknowledged as a sign, man does...

... use of clothing. This chapter examines Aretino’s discussions of clothing and gifts in his first volume of letters, to show that his exploitation of images, clothing, letters, and the printing press reveals an increasing awareness of the need for a single, fixed symbol as a means of self-representation...

... appearance, our phonic skin) part of the world. It suggests that every activity of intentional projection of the sensible life is similar to the production of a kind of “mobile skin,” capable of living beyond ourselves. In this sense, human language has the same relation to clothing that animals' call has...

... identity clothing as knights Maggi Armando patria Dialogo dell’imprese militari e amorose Giovio emblem books framing Giovio Paolo Dialogo dell’imprese militari e amorose Greenblatt Stephen heroes impresa books impresistica interiority monumental pose authority and monumentality demands...

...This chapter explains what it means to have the possibility to dress oneself by focusing on the metaphysics of clothing. It argues that every article of clothing satisfies both biological necessities and cultural urgencies. It discusses the power of images to generate and give form...

...This chapter explains how fashion forces us to constantly appear in the medium of another sensible image of ourselves. It considers the meaning of having clothes, the kind of life that fashion introduces us to, and what we experience in the clothes that we wear. It argues that a piece of clothing...

...This chapter explains how we live in the body of clothing, or more specifically, how this secondary body permits us to exist. It suggests that clothing does not stand opposite the body; rather, it is merely a second or minor body, in the same way that the organic body, according to ancient Platonic...

... that the naked Francis received refuge and shelter in the bishop's open cloak, which stands for the arms of the Church welcoming a convert. Clothing protects human beings and separates them from one another and from the environment by constructing an anthropological and social barrier between body and space...