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Laura
Weigert.
Weaving Sacred Stories:
French Choir Tapestries and the Performance of Clerical Identity.
Cornell University Press, 2004.
Conjunctions of
Religion and Power in the Medieval Past series.
272pp.
Hardback.
ISBN 0801440084.
Publisher's
recommended price $49.95
Spanning the backs of choir
stalls above the heads of the canons and their officials, large-scale
tapestries of saints' lives functioned as both architectural elements
and pictorial narratives in the late Middle Ages. In an extensively
illustrated book that features sixteen color plates, Laura Weigert
examines the role of these tapestries in ritual performances. She
situates individual tapestries within their architectural and
ceremonial settings, arguing that the tapestries contributed to a
process of storytelling in which the clerical elite of late medieval
cities legitimated and defended their position in the social sphere.
Weigert focuses on three of the most spectacular and little-studied
tapestry series preserved from the fifteenth and early sixteenth
centuries: Lives of Saints Piat and Eleutherius (Notre-Dame, Tournai),
Life of Saint Steven (Saint-Steven, Auxerre [now Musée du Moyen
Age, Paris]), and Life of Saints Gervasius and Protasius (Saint-Julien,
Le Mans). Each of these tapestries, measuring over forty meters in
length, included elements that have traditionally been defined as
either lay or clerical. On the prescribed days when the
tapestries were displayed, the liturgical performance for which they
were the setting sought to merge the history and patron saint of the
local community with the universal history of the Christian church.
Weigert combines a detailed analysis of the narrative structure of
individual images with a discussion of the particular social
circumstances in which they were produced and perceived. Weaving Sacred
Stories is thereby significant not only to the history of medieval art
but also to art history and cultural studies in general.
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