[PDF.81fb] Weaving Sacred Stories: French Choir Tapestries and the Performance of Clerical Identity (Conjunctions of Religion and Power in the Medieval Past)

Weaving Sacred Stories: French Choir Tapestries and the Performance of Clerical Identity (Conjunctions of Religion and Power in the Medieval Past)

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 | #2921403 in Books |  Cornell University Press |  2004-03-25 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.24 x.87 x7.86l,2.23 | File type: PDF | 272 pages

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||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Weavings and history|By Elisabeth Brumley|The illustrations are worth buying the book. Added to that, the descriptions and insight about the weavings and their history shared by Laura Weigert make this book an interesting and thought provoking book.| |"Thanks to Laura Weigert, the interior of medieval cathedrals is no longer the large bare space―empty, cold, and silent―that it has become today. During the polyphony of feast days, the sanctuary and above all the choir are arrayed with immense tapestries

Spanning the backs of choir stalls above the heads of the canons and their officials, large-scale tapestries of saints' lives functioned as both architectural elements and pictorial narratives in the late Middle Ages. In an extensively illustrated book that features sixteen color plates, Laura Weigert examines the role of these tapestries in ritual performances. She situates individual tapestries within their architectural and ceremonial settings, arguing that the tapest...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Weaving Sacred Stories: French Choir Tapestries and the Performance of Clerical Identity (Conjunctions of Religion and Power in the Medieval Past)   |  Laura Weigert. Which are the reasons I like to read books. Great story by a great author.

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