Grace Stafford
Biographic Data
| ID | 5086326 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Grace Stafford |
| GIVEN NAMES | Grace |
| FAMILY NAME | Stafford |
| SIGNATURE | STAFFORD G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Warsaw |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3981-4987 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Veiling and Head-Covering in Late Antiquity
In Late Antiquity, as today, women’s veiling was a contentious topic. Early Christian churchmen wrote about it at length, exhorting women to cover and criticizing those they considered were not veiling appropriately. According to these writers, veils were an essential garment tied to Christian modesty and religious ideas about female submission to male authority. Modern scholarship has tended to side with these clergymen, often claiming that with…
Between the living and the dead
Painted portraits on wood and cloth were common in the ancient world and prized as authentic and lifelike images. Affordable, portable, and desirable, they were an important form of representation, but rarely survive in the archaeological record outside Egypt. This article approaches the study of painted portraiture in a way that does not necessitate the survival of the images themselves. It analyzes evidence for the use, reuse, and imitation of …
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Between the living and the dead
Painted portraits on wood and cloth were common in the ancient world and prized as authentic and lifelike images. Affordable, portable, and desirable, they were an important form of representation, but rarely survive in the archaeological record outside Egypt. This article approaches the study of painted portraiture in a way that does not necessitate the survival of the images themselves. It analyzes evidence for the use, reuse, and imitation of …
Veiling and Head-Covering in Late Antiquity
In Late Antiquity, as today, women’s veiling was a contentious topic. Early Christian churchmen wrote about it at length, exhorting women to cover and criticizing those they considered were not veiling appropriately. According to these writers, veils were an essential garment tied to Christian modesty and religious ideas about female submission to male authority. Modern scholarship has tended to side with these clergymen, often claiming that with…
Art (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Ancient Egypt and Archaeology (1 work) · Anthropology (1 work) · Archaeology (1 work) · Archaeology and Historical Studies (1 work) · Art history (1 work) · Christianity (1 work)