IMC 2014: Sessions
Session 1303: Robed, Vested, and Shrouded: Cloth as Spiritual Metaphor
Wednesday 9 July 2014, 16.30-18.00
| Organiser: | Eleanor Flynn, Melbourne Medical School, University of Melbourne |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Stephanie Jury, School of Philosophical, Historical & International Studies, Monash University, Victoria |
| Paper 1303-a | Body Armour: Clothing as Spiritual Metaphor in a Tuscan Devotional Panel of the 14th Century (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - Painting, Gender Studies |
| Paper 1303-b | Dressing for the Bridegroom: Vesting Prayers for Nuns in Late Medieval Germany (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Monasticism, Religious Life |
| Paper 1303-c | Gorgeous or Plain: Theological Implications of the Protagonists's Garments in Late Medieval Dying, Death, and Burial Rituals (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Art History - Painting, Gender Studies |
| Abstract | In the medieval period clothing and textiles functioned and were understood at multiple levels. Textual descriptions and visual images of the uses of cloth or clothing in a variety of situations were used to link this world with the next, the material with the immaterial. These papers discuss narrative images drawn from saints's lives, funeral liturgies, and the devotional practices of female religious. Informed by recent cultural-historical approaches to the history of dress and textiles we argue that metaphors of wearing, draping, and imagining garments in devotional settings conveyed social, ritual, and spiritual meaning. |