Two Panels from an Orphrey Showing Scenes from the Life of St Thomas of Canterbury

Woolley, Linda

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“…T.5.-1988 (33 × 21 cm) and T. 5A-19885A- (29 × 22.5 cm), cf. (Kurth 1935Wooley 1985;Owen Crocker et al 2012, pp. 64-68;Browne et al 2016, pp.…”

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Embroidering the Life of Thomas Becket during the Middle Ages: Cult and Devotion in Liturgical Vestments

Luel

2022

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From the early studies of Tancred Borenius (1885–1948) to the present, the iconography of the archbishop Thomas Becket has drawn attention among scholars. Numerous studies have been published on the representation of Becket’s martyrdom in mural painting, sculpture, and reliquary caskets. Despite this attention, many questions concerning the selection of episodes embroidered in liturgical vestments and textiles, as well as the commissioning of these objects, remain unresolved. How devotion to Becket spread globally in the Western world has not yet been satisfactorily determined, and there may have been a number of different factors and transmitters. Thus, medieval embroidery could also have been a driving force behind the development and the dissemination of Becket’s cult—notably in the ecclesiastical and, more specifically, episcopal milieu across the Latin Church. This type of production quickly reached ecclesiastical patrons, who were interested in the opportunity of wearing a headpiece or vestments (copes and chasubles) that would serve as reminders of the Archbishop of Canterbury. This was the perfect opportunity for a papal curia that, since Alexander III, had tasked itself with promoting Thomas Becket’s legacy, integrating the saint within Christian martyrial history and within a history of a militant Church.

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“…T.5.-1988 (33 × 21 cm) and T. 5A-19885A- (29 × 22.5 cm), cf. (Kurth 1935Wooley 1985;Owen Crocker et al 2012, pp. 64-68;Browne et al 2016, pp.…”

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Embroidering the Life of Thomas Becket during the Middle Ages: Cult and Devotion in Liturgical Vestments

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Two Panels from an Orphrey Showing Scenes from the Life of St Thomas of Canterbury

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Embroidering the Life of Thomas Becket during the Middle Ages: Cult and Devotion in Liturgical Vestments

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