Cloth-making and the Virgin Mary in Anglo-Saxon literature and art

Author

Coatsworth, Elizabeth

Document type

Article (livre)

Language

English

Book title

Medieval art : recent perspectives : a memorial tribute to C.R. Dodwell

Author (monograph)

Owen-Crocker, Gale R. (Editor, Collective Author); Graham, Timothy (Editor, Collective Author)

Source

Medieval art : recent perspectives : a memorial tribute to C.R. Dodwell. 1998, 8-25, pl. I, 6 ill. (1 col.)

Publisher

Dist. by St. Martin's Press, New York (usa)

Publication country

United States

Abstract (en)

Literary evidence shows that Anglo-Saxon writers and artists were aware of the apocrypha of Mary, and that some were aware of Christological literature in which spinning and weaving were used as metaphors for the Incarnation, and not simplistically as attributes of Mary. At some periods, they were also sensitive to other, negative, connotations of colour, spinning and weaving in the production of inappropriately luxurious dress and the depiction of female status.

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- 300-1400 -- United Kingdom
• Mary, Virgin: Spinning
• Spinning
• Iconography
• Metaphor
• Art
• Literature
• Anglo-Saxon
• 600-1100
• Christian iconography
• Great Britain
• Symbolism

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 300-1400 -- Royaume-Uni
• Vierge: Filant
• Filage
• Iconographie
• Métaphore
• Art
• Littérature
• Anglo-saxon (art)
• 600-1100
• Iconographie chrétienne
• Grande-Bretagne
• Symbolisme

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19991001-00213664

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