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A richly illustrated exploration of the remarkable historic textiles of St John's College, Oxford, revealing their craftsmanship, history and enduring cultural significance.
St John's College, Oxford, has a unique collection of fifteenth- and early sixteenth-century liturgical vestments and banners, as well as three sixteenth- and seventeenth-century tapestries and several early modern cushions. This volume offers a detailed descriptive and illustrated catalogue, as well as a range of articles examining the histories of these textiles within college life over the centuries, the religious context of Reformation and re-use of ecclesiastical garments, histories of embroidery, tapestry and liturgy. Taken together, these articles reveal the cultural and religious significance of these gorgeous materials, then and now.
St John's College, Oxford, has a unique collection of fifteenth- and early sixteenth-century liturgical vestments and banners, as well as three sixteenth- and seventeenth-century tapestries and several early modern cushions. This volume offers a detailed descriptive and illustrated catalogue, as well as a range of articles examining the histories of these textiles within college life over the centuries, the religious context of Reformation and re-use of ecclesiastical garments, histories of embroidery, tapestry and liturgy. Taken together, these articles reveal the cultural and religious significance of these gorgeous materials, then and now.
Price: $130.00
Pages: 292
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Inc.
Imprint: Boydell Press
Publication Date:
22 December 2026
Trim Size: 9.21 X 6.14 in
ISBN: 9781837655298
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:
ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES / Textiles & Costume, European history, ART / Techniques / Textiles & Weaving, Cultural studies: dress and society
1.Acknowledgements
2.List of Figures
3.List of Abbreviations
4.Sylvia Alvares Correia: Catalogue
5.Malcolm Vale: The St John's College Collection of Vestments and Liturgical Textiles: its Acquisition, Early History and Preservation
6.Michael Riordan: The St John's textiles in the Archive
7.Matthew Cheung Salisbury: Seeing, wearing, and manipulating vestments in the medieval liturgy
8.Kate Heard: The Practice of Late Medieval Embroiderers
9.James G. Clark: Church textiles in Tudor & Stuart England
10.Jane Stevenson: Repurposing Pre-Reformation Vestments
11.Katherine Wilson: Later Medieval Ecclesiastical Vestments: Commercial Networks
12.Richard de Beer: English Medieval Embroidery in Museum Catharijneconvent, Utrecht
13.Mary Brooks: A rare English embroidery depicting the Adoration of the Magi in St John's College,
14.Rebecca Moisan: compiled from work by Rachel Billinge and Lorne Campbell, The Possible Association of St Catherine and the Philosophers by Goossen van der Weyden to St John's College, Oxford
15.Helen Wyld: The tapestries at St John's College
16.Lesley O'Connell Edwards: Knitted liturgical gloves: their context and construction
17.Jane Malcolm-Davies, Recreating a red cap: reconstruction of garments as a scholarly research method
18.Tanya Bentham: Opus Anglicanum: Then and Now
19.Elizabeth MacFarlane: The chapel today
20.Glossary
2.List of Figures
3.List of Abbreviations
4.Sylvia Alvares Correia: Catalogue
5.Malcolm Vale: The St John's College Collection of Vestments and Liturgical Textiles: its Acquisition, Early History and Preservation
6.Michael Riordan: The St John's textiles in the Archive
7.Matthew Cheung Salisbury: Seeing, wearing, and manipulating vestments in the medieval liturgy
8.Kate Heard: The Practice of Late Medieval Embroiderers
9.James G. Clark: Church textiles in Tudor & Stuart England
10.Jane Stevenson: Repurposing Pre-Reformation Vestments
11.Katherine Wilson: Later Medieval Ecclesiastical Vestments: Commercial Networks
12.Richard de Beer: English Medieval Embroidery in Museum Catharijneconvent, Utrecht
13.Mary Brooks: A rare English embroidery depicting the Adoration of the Magi in St John's College,
14.Rebecca Moisan: compiled from work by Rachel Billinge and Lorne Campbell, The Possible Association of St Catherine and the Philosophers by Goossen van der Weyden to St John's College, Oxford
15.Helen Wyld: The tapestries at St John's College
16.Lesley O'Connell Edwards: Knitted liturgical gloves: their context and construction
17.Jane Malcolm-Davies, Recreating a red cap: reconstruction of garments as a scholarly research method
18.Tanya Bentham: Opus Anglicanum: Then and Now
19.Elizabeth MacFarlane: The chapel today
20.Glossary