Summary

Recent scholarship on the nunneries of the Late Middle Ages has demonstrated that within these houses, textile work served as important devotional tools which might accompany prayer, meditation and worship. This shows that the production of woven and embroidered textiles in nunneries does not easily compare to any modern-day notion of artistic practice, and it is argued that art historians should take this into consideration when approaching these textiles. This article proposes a new way of analysing textiles from nunneries, based on the premise that within nunneries, textile production was a complex and dynamic devotional practice. The article analyses a series of textiles from Lüne Abbey in northern Germany, the so-called Bartholomäuslaken (1492), Katharinenlaken (1500) and Georgslaken (1500), to illustrate the claim that we should consider textiles from religious houses as material indexes of the devotional practice of nuns.

概括

最近有关中世纪晚期修女的奖学金表明，在这些房屋中，纺织工作是重要的灵修工具，可能伴随着祈祷，冥想和崇拜。这表明，在修道院中生产机织和绣花纺织品不容易与任何现代艺术实践观念相提并论，并且认为艺术史学家在接触这些纺织品时应考虑到这一点。本文提出了一种分析尼姑纺织品的新方法，其前提是在尼尼纶内部，纺织品生产是一种复杂而动态的奉献实践。这篇文章分析了德国北部LüneAbbey的一系列纺织品，分别是所谓的Bartholomäuslaken（1492），Katharinenlaken（1500）和Georgslaken（1500），