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"'Walking in Christ's footsteps' was a devotional ideal in the late Middle Ages. However, few nuns and religious women had the freedom or the funding to take the journey in the flesh. Instead they invented and adjusted devotional exercises to visit the sites virtually. These exercises, largely based on real pilgrims' accounts, made use of images and objects that helped the beholder to imagine walking alongside Christ during his torturous march to Calvary. Some provided scripts whereby votaries could animate paintings and sculptures. Others required the nun to imagine her convent as a miniature model of Jerusalem. This volume is grounded in more than a dozen texts from manuscripts written by medieval nuns and religious women, which appear here transcribed and translated for the first time, and a multiplicity of (occasionally three-dimensional) images. They attest to the ubiquity and variety of virtual pilgrimages among religious women and help to reveal the functions of certain late medieval devotional images."--Publisher's description.

Christian spirituality --- anno 1200-1499 --- Jerusalem --- Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages --- Monastic and religious life of women --- Monasticism and religious orders for women --- Nuns --- Christian women --- Jerusalem in Christianity. --- Pèlerins et pèlerinages chrétiens --- Vie religieuse et monastique féminine --- Monachisme et ordres religieux féminins --- Religieuses --- Chrétiennes --- Jérusalem dans le christianisme --- History --- Religious life --- Histoire --- Vie religieuse --- In Christianity --- 271 "12/15" --- 271-7 --- Kloosterwezen. Religieuze orden en congregaties. Monachisme--?"12/15" --- Godsdienstig leven, liturgie, vroomheid en koordienst in religieuze orden en congregaties --- 271-7 Godsdienstig leven, liturgie, vroomheid en koordienst in religieuze orden en congregaties --- Pèlerins et pèlerinages chrétiens --- Vie religieuse et monastique féminine --- Monachisme et ordres religieux féminins --- Chrétiennes --- Jérusalem dans le christianisme --- Sisters (in religious orders, congregations, etc.) --- Christians --- Women, Christian --- Women --- Pilgrims and pilgrimages, Christian --- Christian shrines --- Pilgrims and pilgrimages --- In Christianity. --- To 1500 --- Europe [Northern ] --- Manuscripts [Medieval ] --- Netherlands --- Jérusalem --- Dans le christianisme --- Jerusalem in Christianity --- Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages - Europe - History - To 1500 --- Monastic and religious life of women - History - Middle Ages, 600-1500 --- Monasticism and religious orders for women - History - Middle Ages, 600-1500 --- Nuns - Europe - History - To 1500 --- Christian women - Religious life - Europe - History - To 1500

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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 revealed. Fragments of imported silk cradle the relic, thereby giving identity to the dessicated bone. Much of that silk came from the east, meaning that a material of Islamic origin was a primary signifier of sanctity in Christianity. Weaving, Veiling, and Dressing brings together twelve essays about text and textile, about silk and wool, about the formation of identity through fibre. The essays bring to light hitherto unseen material, and for the first time, establish the function of textiles as a culturally rich way to approach the Middle Ages. Textiles were omnipresent in the medieval church, but have not survived well. To uncover their uses, presence, and meanings in the Middle Ages is to reconsider the period spun, draped, clothed, shrouded, and dressed. Textiles in particular were essential to the performance of devotion and of the liturgy. Brightly dyed cloth was a highly visible maker of meaning. While some aspects of culture have been studied, namely the important tapestry industry, as well as some of the repercussions and activities of cloth guilds, other areas of textile studies in the period are yet to be studied. This book brings an interdisciplinary approach to new material, drawing on art history, anthropology, medieval text history, theology, and gender and performance studies. It makes a compelling miscellany exploring the nature of Christianity in the largely uninvestigated field of text and textile interplay.

History of civilization --- Applied arts. Arts and crafts --- Semiotics --- anno 1200-1499 --- Textile fabrics --- Christian art and symbolism --- Textiles et tissus --- Art et symbolisme chrétiens --- Religious aspects. --- Aspect religieux --- Vêtement --- --Textile --- --Moyen âge, --- Religious aspects --- History --- 091.31 "04/14" --- 745.52 --- 745.522 --- 391 "04/14" --- 746.033 --- 7.033 --- 75.033 --- 7.036 --- Iconografie ; christelijke ; Middeleeuwen --- Iconografie ; symboliek ; christelijke --- Textiel ; Middeleeuwen ; christelijke symboliek --- Verluchte handschriften--Middeleeuwen --- Kunstvoorwerpen van textiel. Textielkunst --- Tapijtkunst. Tapisserie. Gobelins --- Kleding. Mode. Sieraden. Volksdracht--Middeleeuwen --- Textielkunst ; Middeleeuwen --- Kunstgeschiedenis ; Middeleeuwen --- Schilderkunst ; Middeleeuwen --- Iconografie ; epische, mythologische, religieuze voorstellingen --- History. --- Visual Arts --- Art, Architecture & Applied Arts --- Decorative Arts --- 391 "04/14" Kleding. Mode. Sieraden. Volksdracht--Middeleeuwen --- 745.522 Tapijtkunst. Tapisserie. Gobelins --- 745.52 Kunstvoorwerpen van textiel. Textielkunst --- 091.31 "04/14" Verluchte handschriften--Middeleeuwen --- Art et symbolisme chrétiens --- Cloth --- Fabrics --- Textile industry and fabrics --- Textiles --- Decorative arts --- Dry-goods --- Weaving --- Textile fibers --- Textile --- Moyen âge, 476-1492 --- Textile fabrics - Religious aspects --- Textile fabrics - Europe - History --- Christian art and symbolism - Medieval, 500-1500