Appel à contribution : « The Materiality of Sacred Textiles in Europe », Padoue, Università degli Studi di Padova, 21-22 novembre 2024, date limite le 27 juillet 2024
Since Antiquity, textiles have played a key role in the religious sphere. They formed part of ritual trappings and were used in funerary ceremonials as garments for the deceased or furnishings within churches and shrines, serving the twofold purpose of wrapping bodies and articulating, dividing, and concealing/revealing spaces and objects. Additionally, they were offered as gifts to the divinities or were employed to dress religious images, thus becoming connectors between the sacred and the profane,...