Juliane von Fircks, Liturgische Gewaender des Mittelalters aus St Nikolai in Stralsund

摘要

In this sumptuously illustrated book, containing introductory essays, a catalogue and glossary, Juliane von Fircks presents a detailed, scholarly study of medieval vestments from the church of St Nikolai in Stralsund. Situated on the Strelasund, a sound of the Baltic Sea separating the island of Ruegen from the mainland, Stralsund was a member of the Hanseatic League from 1293. Like several other northern German cities, from the fourteenth century it was home to a 'Kalands brotherhood' (Lat. Fratres Calendarii): a confraternity of clergy and the laity, whose name arose from the monthly meetings of the clergy. During the middle ages, the confraternity had its chapel in the church of St Nikolai, and in the sixteenth century, during the Reformation, transformed itself from a spiritual and charitable to a primarily charitable association. It is a group of vestments formerly belonging to this confraternity, which has since the nineteenth century been in the formerrnProvinzialmuseum Neuvorpommern und Riigen, now the Kulturhistorische Museum in Stralsund, that forms the focus of this study.