Weaving, Veiling and Dressing: Textiles and Their Metaphors in the Late Middle Ages by Kathryn M. Rudy

Weaving, Veiling and Dressing: Textiles and Their Metaphors in the Late Middle Ages

Kathryn M. Rudy

361 pages • first pub 2007 (editions)

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Christianity is a religion of clothing. To become a priest or a nun is to take the cloth. The Christian liturgy is intimately bound with veiling objects and revealing them. Cloths hide the altar, making it all the more spectacular when it is revea...

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