Dressing part textiles propaganda (2 Ergebnisse)

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. During the Middle Ages, textiles played a particularly prominent role in the communication of wealth and authority by mediating the body politic and defining spaces of political, religious, and social power. The intrinsic material value of textiles-which could be woven out of silk, enriched with silver and gold threads, and garnished with precious stones-complemented an elaborate visual language that conveyed ideological messages. From the ornamented sphere of ecclesiastical dress and the celebrations of feast days to an aristocrat's various rites of passage (such as birth, marriage, coronation, and death), textiles functioned as propaganda. Rulers across the European, Byzantine and Islamic worlds expressed their dynastic claims, military prowess, political aspirations and accomplishments by commissioning, displaying, wearing, and offering textiles. DJ; Large; Heavy. Slight bruising to bottom of spine and top of front cover. 213 pages.…

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Provenance; bookplate of Capt Richard Campbell, OBE, RN. Physical description; 213 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 29 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references. Contents; Introduction / Kate Dimitrova and Margaret Goehring Pictorial textiles and their performance: the Star Mantle of Henry II / David Ganz Orthodox liturgical textiles and clerical self-referentiality / Warren T. Woodfin The Epitaphoi of Stephen the Great / Henry Schilb Liturgical textiles as papal donations in late medieval Italy / Christiane Elster Monument in linen: a thirteenth-century embroidered catafalque cover for the members of the Beata Stirps of Saint Elizabeth of Hungary / Stefanie Seeberg Cultures re-shaped: textiles from the Castilian royal tombs in Santa Maria de las Huelgas in Burgos / Kristin Böse 'So lyvely in cullers and gilting': vestments on episcopal tomb effigies in England / Catherine Walden Material evidence, theological requirements and medial transformation: 'textile strategies' in the court art of Charles IV / Evelin Wetter Weaving legitimacy: the Jouvenel des Ursins family and the construction of nobility in fifteenth-century France / Jennifer E. Courts Textiles in the Great Mongol Shahnama: a new approach to Ilkhanid dress / Yuka Kadoi. Subjects; Clothing and dress Social aspects History To 1500. Textile fabrics Social aspects History To 1500. Church vestments History. Power (Social sciences) History To 1500. Propaganda History To 1500. 1 Kg. …