Early Christian Dress is the first full-length monograph on the subject of dress in early Christianity. It pays attentio
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In her eighteenth-century medical recipe manuscript, the Philadelphia healer Elizabeth Coates Paschall asserted her inge
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The most prominent Christian theologian and exegete of the third century, Origen was also an influential teacher. In the
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