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      In-Between Textiles, 1400-1800 : Weaving Subjectivities and Encounters 

      “Rags of Popery” : Dressing and Addressing the Material Culture of Disrupted Faith in Early Modern England

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      clerical vestments, identity politics, minority, hybridity, cultural difference

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          This chapter examines how clerical garments became disruptive signifiers of religious and political (dis)connections in early modern England. Ritual garb, this chapter argues, became a material expression of a minority “social articulation of difference” which Bhabha positions as “a complex, on-going negotiation that seeks to authorize cultural hybridities that emerge in moments of historical transformation.” Freighted with conflicted values, vestments physically “fix[ed] cultural difference in a containable, visible object” at a time of religious flux. Their very cultural fluidity and ability to carry alternative meanings made vestments simultaneously a threat or a comfort, seen as emblems of deceit or continuity as they were rejected by reformers and claimed by believers.

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          February 15 2023
          : 185-202
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          [1 ] Durham University
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