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OverviewThe 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Nancy SpiesPublisher: Brill Imprint: Brill Volume: 21 Weight: 0.001kg ISBN: 9789004691049ISBN 10: 9004691049 Pages: 400 Publication Date: 20 June 2024 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Forthcoming Availability: Not yet available  This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of ContentsPreface 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 IndexReviewsAuthor InformationNancy 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). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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