Medieval Textiles of St John's College, Oxford.

Catalogue and Context
Erscheinungsjahr 2026
ISBN: 978-1-83765-529-8
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer

Buch, Englisch, 292 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Skoda, Hannah

Weitere Mitwirkende

Correia, Sylvia Alvares

Vale, Malcolm

Riordan, Michael

Salisbury, Matthew Cheung

Heard, Kate

Clark, James G.

Stevenson, Jane

Wilson, Katherine

Beer, Richard de

Brooks, Mary

Moisan, Rebecca

Wyld, Helen

O'Connell Edwards, Lesley A

Malcolm-Davies, Jane

Bentham, Tanya

MacFarlane, Elizabeth

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Textilkunst
• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Antiquitäten, Sammelobjekte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Heard, Kate
Kate Heard is senior curator of prints and drawings at the Royal Collection Trust.

Moisan, Rebecca
Rebecca Moisan is Conservation Officer at Southampton City Council and Art Gallery.

Bentham, Tanya
Tanya Bentham is a medieval embroidery specialist and maker.

Wilson, Katherine
Katherine Wilson is Professor of Later Medieval European History at the University of Chester. She works on the shifting patterns of material culture and its commercial, cultural and political contexts.

Salisbury, Matthew Cheung
Matthew Cheung Salisbury is lecturer in music at University College, Oxford. He specialises in the medieval liturgy and the theology of music in worship.

Skoda, Hannah
Hannah Skoda is Fellow and Tutor in medieval history at St John's College, Oxford. She is also keeper of the textiles and silver at the college.

MacFarlane, Elizabeth
Elizabeth MacFarlane is chaplain of St John's College, Oxford.

Malcolm-Davies, Jane
Jane Malcolm-Davies is senior lecturer in textile studies at the Uppsala University. She has published widely, using reconstruction as a scholarly research method, and integrating craft expertise into academic investigation.

Beer, Richard de
Richard de Beer is Curator of Heritage of the Old Catholic Church, Museum Catharijne convent in Utrecht, Netherlands.

Correia, Sylvia Alvares
Sylvia Alvares Correia is a Junior Research Fellow in the History of Art at Christ Church college, Oxford. She works on the cultural exchanges between the Netherlands and Portugal, as well as Portugal's overseas territories in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.

Clark, James G.
James G. Clark is Professor of History at the University of Exeter. He has published widely on the later Middle Ages and early modern period, most recently The Dissolution of the Monasteries (Yale, 2021)

Vale, Malcolm
Malcolm Vale is emeritus fellow in medieval history at St John's College, Oxford. He has published widely on the political and cultural history of the later Middle Ages.

Wyld, Helen
Helen Wyld is Senior Curator of History Textiles at National Museums, Scotland. She is the author of The Art of Tapestry (Bloomsbury, 2022)

Brooks, Mary
Mary Brooks is associate professor at the University of Durham. Her research focuses on how society engages with 'material things' and how these are, or have been, collected, interpreted and represented in museums.

Riordan, Michael
Michael Riordan is archivist at St John's College, Oxford, and Queen's College, Oxford.

Stevenson, Jane
Jane Stevenson is Senior Research Fellow at Campion Hall, Oxford, and a member of the English Faculty, Oxford. She has published widely on Latin and the classical tradition, women's history, and exiles particularly recusants.