Touching the Hem: The Thread between Garment and Blood in the Story of the Woman with the Haemorrhage (Mark 5:24b-34parr)
Barbara Baert|Emma Sidgwick
In this article I start from a particular passage in the New Testament that will touch on biblical threads and paradigms related to textile. Mark 5:24b-34, Luke 8:42-48, Matthew 9:19-22 tell story of healing “woman with an issue blood,” Haemorrhoissa. This (and its Nachleben commentaries iconographies) pulsates delicate energy relating textile, cloth, magical impact touch. firstly investigate upon those textile-related dimensions by situating what term narrative, iconic, anthropological space. finally lead hypothesis origin medieval assimilation Haemorrhoissa Veronica, woman who carried imprint Christ's face.
Textile-the Journal of Cloth & Culture|Lirias (KU Leuven)