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Weaving sacred stories : French choir tapestries and the performance of clerical identity / Laura Weigert.
Fine Arts Library NK3049.A1 W37 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Weigert, Laura.
- Series:
- Conjunctions of religion & power in the medieval past
- Conjunctions of religion and power in the medieval past
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tapestry--France.
- Tapestry.
- Church decoration and ornament.
- France.
- Church decoration and ornament--France.
- Christian saints in art.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 246 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2004.
- Contents:
- Setting the stage
- The Lives of Piat and Eleutherius: the audience of choir tapestry and its stories of the past
- The gift of the Life of Gervasius and Protasius and its donor
- The Life of Stephen: the liturgical setting of choir tapestry and its performance of the saint's vita
- Woven vitae of the saints and clerical identity.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [215]-230) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0801440084
- OCLC:
- 52937530
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