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Weaving, Veiling, and Dressing brings together twelve essays about text and textile, about silk and wool, about the formation of identity through fibre. The essays bring to light hitherto unseen material, and for the first time, establish the function of textiles as a culturally rich way to approach the Middle Ages. Textiles were omnipresent in the medieval church, but have not survived well. To uncover their uses, presence, and meanings in the Middle Ages is to reconsider the period spun, draped, clothed, shrouded, and dressed. Textiles in particular were essential to the performance of devotion and of the liturgy. Brightly dyed cloth was a highly visible maker of meaning. While some aspects of culture have been studied, namely the important tapestry industry, as well as some of the repercussions and activities of cloth guilds, other areas of textile studies in the period are yet to be studied. This book brings an interdisciplinary approach to new material, drawing on art history, anthropology, medieval text history, theology, and gender and performance studies. It makes a compelling miscellany exploring the nature of Christianity in the largely uninvestigated field of text and textile interplay.

History of civilization --- Applied arts. Arts and crafts --- Semiotics --- anno 1200-1499 --- Textile fabrics --- Christian art and symbolism --- Textiles et tissus --- Art et symbolisme chrétiens --- Religious aspects. --- Aspect religieux --- Vêtement --- --Textile --- --Moyen âge, --- Religious aspects --- History --- 091.31 "04/14" --- 745.52 --- 745.522 --- 391 "04/14" --- 746.033 --- 7.033 --- 75.033 --- 7.036 --- Iconografie ; christelijke ; Middeleeuwen --- Iconografie ; symboliek ; christelijke --- Textiel ; Middeleeuwen ; christelijke symboliek --- Verluchte handschriften--Middeleeuwen --- Kunstvoorwerpen van textiel. Textielkunst --- Tapijtkunst. Tapisserie. Gobelins --- Kleding. Mode. Sieraden. Volksdracht--Middeleeuwen --- Textielkunst ; Middeleeuwen --- Kunstgeschiedenis ; Middeleeuwen --- Schilderkunst ; Middeleeuwen --- Iconografie ; epische, mythologische, religieuze voorstellingen --- History. --- Visual Arts --- Art, Architecture & Applied Arts --- Decorative Arts --- 391 "04/14" Kleding. Mode. Sieraden. Volksdracht--Middeleeuwen --- 745.522 Tapijtkunst. Tapisserie. Gobelins --- 745.52 Kunstvoorwerpen van textiel. Textielkunst --- 091.31 "04/14" Verluchte handschriften--Middeleeuwen --- Art et symbolisme chrétiens --- Cloth --- Fabrics --- Textile industry and fabrics --- Textiles --- Decorative arts --- Dry-goods --- Weaving --- Textile fibers --- Textile --- Moyen âge, 476-1492 --- Textile fabrics - Religious aspects --- Textile fabrics - Europe - History --- Christian art and symbolism - Medieval, 500-1500