Overview

The story of the mitre began during the 11th-century church reform movements and was, surprisingly, inspired by a popular pastime. After a thousand years of bare heads, the Church finally had an official hat, signaling newly-structured internal dynamics, an increase in power and influence in society, and greater parity with secular leaders.

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Author:   Nancy Spies
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   21
Weight:   0.831kg
ISBN:  

9789004691049

ISBN 10:   9004691049
Pages:   358
Publication Date:   20 June 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface Acknowledgements List of Figures and Tables Introduction  1 What Is a Mitre? A New Definition  2 Terminology  3 Terms Specific to the Mitre  4 Bands, Ornamental 1 Finding and Examining the Evidence  1 Sample Collecting: Methodology  2 Examination of the Visual Evidence  3 General Statistics  4 The First Mitre Images – Styles and Orientation – from the End of the Eleventh Century to 1115  5 Mitres from 1119 to the End of the Twelfth Century–Beginning of the Thirteenth Century  6 Lobed Mitres  7 Peaked Mitres  8 Details of the Mitres Themselves  9 Mitres at the End of the Twelfth Century–Beginning of the Thirteenth Century  10 The Choice of Images  11 Issues for Consideration  12 Extant Mitres  13 Who Wore the Mitre? 2 Testing the Development  1 Braun’s Version of the Early Evolution of the Mitre  2 The Conical Hat on Ecclesiastical Heads  3 The Round Hat on Ecclesiastical Heads  4 Experimental Archaeology  5 The Conical Hat and the Round Hat  6 The Lobed Mitre  7 The Peaked Mitre 3 Understanding the Institutional Context  1 Vestments  2 Church Rituals 4 Reading the Documents  1 Eleventh-Century Written Evidence  2 Twelfth-Century Written Evidence  3 Gifting, the Miraculous, the Purely Political 5 Searching for Origins  1 Religious and Political Factors  2 Origins of the Peaks and the Lobes  3 Geographical Origins  4 A Special Situation: Bohemia (Poland and the Czech Republic) 6 Declaring the Winner Conclusions Appendices A–G  Appendix A: Examples of the Conical Hat on Ecclesiastical Heads  Appendix B: Examples of the Round Hat on Ecclesiastical Heads  Appendix C: Examples of Mitra Interpretations from Old Testament and Ancient Greek Sources  Appendix D: Outlier Hats on Ecclesiastical Heads  Appendix E: Mitres on Ecclesiastical Heads from the Late 11th Century to the Beginning of the 13th Century  Appendix F: 13th Century (to 1250) Mitres on Ecclesiastical Heads (Exceptions Only)  Appendix G: Secular Lobed Hats and Pouches (Bags) Glossary Bibliography Index

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Nancy Spies is an independent scholar researching medieval textiles, particularly ecclesiastical garments. Among her published articles and books is the groundbreaking Ecclesiastical Pomp and Aristocratic Circumstances: A Thousand Years of Brocaded Tabletwoven Bands, (2000).

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