The Embodied Icon: Liturgical Vestments and Sacramental Power in Byzantium

摘要

This is a very different book from its two predecessors: G. Millet, Broderies Religieuses de Style Byzantin (1947) and P. Johnstone, Byzantine Tradition in Church Embroidery (1967), if only because Woodfin has limited himself to what he calls liturgical vestments, by which he means the garments worn by bishops, priests and deacons for the performance of the liturgy. His choice of words may cause confusion, because Johnstone (see her obituary in Textile History, xxxvm (2007), p. 212) drew a very careful distinction between hierarchical and liturgical vestments; the former being what Woodfin calls liturgical vestments and the latter various liturgical cloths, such as the epitaphios (used for the celebration of the liturgy on Holy Saturday) and the aer (used to cover the pattern and the chalice). Millet makes a similar distinction when he divides his study into costume liturgique and voiles.