Sewing the Body of Christ: Eucharist Wafer Souvenirs Stitched into Fifteenth-Century Manuscripts, primarily in the Netherlands

Rudy, Kathryn M.

doi:10.5092/jhna.2016.8.1.1

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“…You are my strength and my support oh Maria, my comfort and my protection. To thee I have called out when my heart was heavy and you heard me from the 31 For more on the relationship between paternoster beads and/or rosary strands and apotropaism, see Decker, 2011;Knippenberg. 32 The standard study of the development of the rosary in the fifteenth century is Winston-Allen.…”

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“…Second, seeing these saints in terms of kinship allowed the duchess to understand the community of saints within her own cultural norms. Scholars have studied the various social networks that late medieval and early modern 88 Brandenbarg;Decker, 2016. women of all socioeconomic levels employed. 89 In addition to standard patronclient alliances, women often integrated themselves or were integrated into large, extended family networks (both agnate and cognate) that touched on all aspects of daily life.…”

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Aid, Protection, and Social Alliance: The Role of Jewelry in the Margins of theHours of Catherine of Cleves

Decker

2018

Renaiss. Q.

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This article examines five miniatures in the “Hours of Catherine of Cleves” (completed 1442), each containing representations of jewelry in the margins, which operate on two different levels. First, they demonstrate Catherine of Cleves’s adoration of five female saints. I argue that the fictive jewelry may be understood as simulated ex-votos designed to secure the aid and protection of the saints. Second, the images establish strategic alliances with each saint. As a final dimension, I explore how the vitae of these saints may have had resonances for the duchess that help explain the focus placed on them in the manuscript.

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Aid, Protection, and Social Alliance: The Role of Jewelry in the Margins of theHours of Catherine of Cleves

Decker

2018

Renaiss. Q.

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Image, Knife, and Gluepot

Rudy

2019

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In this ingenious study, Kathryn Rudy takes the reader on a journey to trace the birth, life and afterlife of a Netherlandish book of hours made in 1500. Image, Knife, and Gluepot painstakingly reconstructs the process by which this manuscript was created and discusses its significance as a text at the forefront of fifteenth-century book production, when the invention of mechanically-produced images led to the creation of new multimedia objects. Rudy then travels to the nineteenth century to examine the phenomenon of manuscript books being pillaged for their prints and drawings: she has diligently tracked down the dismembered parts of this book of hours for the first time. Image, Knife, and Gluepot also documents Rudy’s twenty-first-century research process, as she hunts through archives while grappling with the logistics and occasionally the limits of academic research. This is a timely volume, focusing on questions of materiality at the forefront of medieval and literary studies. Beautifully illustrated throughout, its use of original material and its striking interdisciplinary approach, combining book and art history, make it a significant academic achievement. Image, Knife, and Gluepot is a valuable text for any scholar in the fields of medieval studies, the history of early books and publishing, cultural history or material culture. Written in Rudy’s inimitable style, it will also be rewarding for any student enrolled in a course on manuscript production, as well as non-specialists interested in the afterlives of manuscripts and prints.

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1. Cut, Pasted, and Cut Again

Rudy

2019

Image, Knife, and Gluepot

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Chapter 1 reconstructs a manuscript by beghards in Maastricht. (Beghards were men who followed St Francis, considered themselves to be Franciscans, and who lived in community in towns and cities. They did not beg but made their living through their trade and labour.) By reconstructing this book, I can show how the beghards learned to integrate the new technology of printed images into the making of their manuscript. That book straddles the two technological moments and sees the creators adapting midstream.

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Sewing the Body of Christ: Eucharist Wafer Souvenirs Stitched into Fifteenth-Century Manuscripts, primarily in the Netherlands

Cited by 7 publications

References 6 publications

Aid, Protection, and Social Alliance: The Role of Jewelry in the Margins of theHours of Catherine of Cleves

Aid, Protection, and Social Alliance: The Role of Jewelry in the Margins of theHours of Catherine of Cleves

Image, Knife, and Gluepot

1. Cut, Pasted, and Cut Again

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