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...-length discussion of the use and hermeneutics of hurch vestments, however, reveals a consistent problem at the heart of ecclesiastical attire: how the changing “fashion” of actual garments worn by the clergy in this period no longer accorded with the traditional, often biblical prescriptions...

....8 Luxury objects and fashionable garments were valuable assets that set elite families apart from the working poor.9 Over two centuries of great economic and demographic expansion (ca. 1450 – ca. 1650), new patterns of produc- tion, merchandizing, and consumption in the creation...

... they required for their work. Instead, customers were responsi- ble for acquiring all the materials needed to make a garment, such as fabrics, linings, buttons, and other haberdashery. This practice strongly contrasted with the traditions of many other crafts, and it has been seen as a reflection...

.../habitude (a costume and a custom, a worn garment and a lived life) in Defert’s essay is the priest dressed in the habit of his order. The gown identifies him to the outer eye, but it also incor- porates into him the rules of the order to which he belongs, “incorporate” taken in its literal sense...

..., the discursive energies of the veil’s transparency drew on the semantic capac- ities of those thicker textiles: bedding, seating, floor-­covering, sunshades. All of those fabrics, as well as the woven garments were the basis of Inca costume. Ruiz related that Atawallpa was wearing a “shirt without arms.”57...

... his homeland, has forsaken any signs that reveal his proper national affiliation by wearing the various French garments. He has invited foreign fashion “hither,” thus becoming a foreigner in his own land. The body of the English subject, cov- ered over with “so much” that is French, not only...

... they are monstrous: I would the Lord that when you goe to take measure of your wide and flaunting garments, that then your soules would remember the way to heaven which is said to be narrow. . . . And it is to be feared that your great round-abouts, and wide circumferences...

... Arab horses with gilded bridles and saddles, thirty horses with silvered saddles, thirty others with silk saddle cloths, twenty mules with golden saddles, thirty camel loads of precious carpets and rare furnishings, fifty garments in various colors. . . .”29...

... during the ritualized cleansing bath on the morn- ing of the second day of the wedding: another fur coat (shuba), a kaftan (terlik), a light outer garment (opashen), a decorative collar (ozherel'e), and a drinking goblet (chashnik) — all gifts that were also given to Tsarevich Peter...

... shrinketh his neck into his shell, or a man his head into his shirt, or garment, to hide it; and to turn in, as when one turneth in, or doubleth inward or outward the mouth of a Sack, or Bag.” This notion enabled Pococke to reconcile the different senses of the word in the Vulgate and the English Bible...

...: [They are] extremely beautiful garments, well woven and deco- rated in different sections with the feathers of all kinds of birds, skillfully and artfully interwoven, in such a variety of well matched colors that for this reason and for their rarity, they can be considered the most...

... addition of the word pallium , a more formal and specifically religious synonym of the common mantel , imbues the garment with greater significance. Building on the existing cultural significance of the garment, Chartier develops Lady France's mantle into a visual allegory for the dire circumstances...

... ekphrastic tradition in which tapestries and embroidered gar- dens are described so richly that the flowers seem alive. In Book III of The Faerie Queene, a tapestry in the Castle Joyeous depicts Venus as she “with her soft garment wipes away the gore” from Adonis, marking her doubled cloth...

... to be both otherworldly—thus the glowing golden wand and shining, gilded garments—and yet particularly Jewish: thus his abun- dant beard and his long, white “priestly” hair give his specter a certain aura of “the Old Law.”37 Like the inventio crucis, Lucianus’s tale is framed in a straightfor...

... death by a literal work of mourning, the addition of black ribbons crafted into true-­love knots. The object is so thoroughly endowed with meaning that Montagu is moved to represent it in the imagery of the monument, and again visually and textually in the manuscript. The garment’s true-­love...

... mysterious 354 Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 50.2 / 2020 physical injuries on them. The key witness, however, was a young woman named Barbara, who had been arrested for stealing a garment. During her interrogation which involved torture she confessed that she was merely an executor...

... perish as a garment olde, / Or as a vesture by the maker chang’d” (SD 58 – 59), a reference to Psalm 102:26 – 27 — she uses the translation “garment” and “vesture” common to the Geneva and Bishops’ Bibles, rather than use the Sidneys’ translation, “clothes.” Compare The Psalms...

... of pissing boys instead only appear from the mid- fifteenth century. Perhaps the Florentine sculptor (Niccolò Lamberti?) did not quite understand the meaning of the ancient type. The putto follows Lucretius’s description of pissing boys who “are lifting up their garments,” but that gesture makes...

... much as a conceptual enigma that the play stages as a constitutive char- acteristic of Prospero’s “magic.” Instructing Miranda to help him divest himself of his enchanted mantle, Prospero commands: Lend thy hand And pluck my magic garment from me...

... garments, sleep on soft beds, or be idle.33 In chapters 23 and 24, he addresses the other side of enclosure: the entrance of visitors into the cloister. By outlining a plan for the two points at which the secular world intersected with the convent — the door and the visiting parlor — he...