Meier, Esther
Stoff der Protestanten: Textilien und Kleidung in den lutherischen und reformierten Konfessionen
Wissenschaftliche Beibände zum Anzeiger des Germanischen Nationalmuseums, Volume 46
Textiles and clothing play a significant role in Christianity. After the Reformation, various textiles and types of garments took on specific denominational character for adherents of the Lutheran and Reformed faiths. Depending on the spaces in which such items were used, and by whom, they could be expressive of theological convictions and church ceremonies, social order and political power, and religious knowledge and economic strategies. The essays in this conference volume analyze the manifold layers of meaning that Protestant denominations ascribed to clothing and textiles from the Reformation period to about 1900.
