ABSTRACT
The theme of this chapter is how the monastics were dressed for death and how the garments of transition and salvation were imagined. The chapter discusses treatments of the dead bodies, involving being naked or clothed, and how these treatments were intended to influence the dead in the afterlife. The chapter then turns to various ideas about garments of transition, transformation, and salvation and finally to how heavenly garments could take on a life of their own and become agents of salvation. Egyptian burial customs and ideology; Graeco-Roman philosophical views of the body and soul; and Christian philosophical and mythological texts are brought into the discussion.
