The Mitre

Its Origins and Early Development
Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-90-04-69104-9
Verlag: World Bank Publications

Buch, Englisch, Band 21, 358 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 238 mm, Gewicht: 882 g

Reihe: Art and Material Culture in Medieval and Renaissance Europe

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Spies, Nancy

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Völkerwanderung und Mittelalter
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Byzantinisch
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Vor- und Frühgeschichte, prähistorische Archäologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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).