TY - CHAP
T1 - Sewing as authority in the Middle Ages
AU - Rudy, Kathryn Margaret
PY - 2015/1/6
Y1 - 2015/1/6
N2 - This essay considers medieval sewing in light of Austin’s speech-act theory. Analysing manuscripts, relics, indulgences, and even a bishop’s mitre, the article argues that stitching was a way to enact, or intensify, the ritual purpose of objects, whether that was ceremonial, devotional, or authoritative. Whereas a speech act functions by its utterance, stitches act by forming visible and often ceremonious attachments between materials in order to aggrandise, embellish, assert and layer authority, or swathe an object in textiles as if it were a relic.
AB - This essay considers medieval sewing in light of Austin’s speech-act theory. Analysing manuscripts, relics, indulgences, and even a bishop’s mitre, the article argues that stitching was a way to enact, or intensify, the ritual purpose of objects, whether that was ceremonial, devotional, or authoritative. Whereas a speech act functions by its utterance, stitches act by forming visible and often ceremonious attachments between materials in order to aggrandise, embellish, assert and layer authority, or swathe an object in textiles as if it were a relic.
KW - Medieval manuscripts
KW - Parchment
KW - Cultural techniques
UR - https://meiner.de/zmk-zeitschrift-fuer-medien-und-kulturforschung-6-1-2015-textil.html
M3 - Chapter
SN - 978-3-7873-2794-2
T3 - Zeitschrift für Medien - und Kulturforschung (ZMK)
SP - 117
EP - 131
BT - ZMK Zeitschrift für Medien - und Kulturforschung 6/1/2015
A2 - Engell, Lorenz
A2 - Siegert, Bernhard
PB - Felix Meiner Verlag GmbH
CY - Hamburg
ER -