Weaving Sacred Stories: French Choir Tapestries and the Performance of Clerical Identity

by Laura Weigert

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801440084
• ISBN13: 9780801440083
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 2.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.9" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher