Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-213).
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 / Yuko [sic] Kadoi -- Notes to the text.
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