The Mitre: Its Origins and Early Development / / Nancy Spies.

• Superior document: Art and Material Culture in Medieval and Renaissance Europe ; 21
• VerfasserIn: Spies, Nancy,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2024.; ©2024
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Art and Material Culture in Medieval and Renaissance Europe ; 21.; Late Antiquity and Medieval Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2023.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (383 pages)

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.

Table of Contents

Front Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Figures and Tables -- Introduction -- 1 What Is a Mitre? A New Definition -- 2 Terminology -- 3 Terms Specific to the Mitre -- 3.1 (a) Mitre -- 3.2 (b) A Simple Folding Hat: the Peaked Mitre -- 3.3 (c) Lobed -- 3.4 (d) Peaked -- 4 Bands, Ornamental -- 4.1 (a) Circular -- 4.2 (b) Vertical -- 4.3 (c) Terminal -- 4.4 (d) Median -- 4.5 (e) Transverse -- 4.6 (f) Pendants -- Chapter 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 -- 11.1 (a) Source Availability -- 11.2 (b) Dating -- 11.3 (c) Provenance -- 11.4 (d) Proficiency of the Artist -- 11.5 (e) Color and Decoration -- 11.6 (f) Style Oddities and Further Artistic Issues -- 12 Extant Mitres -- 13 Who Wore the Mitre? -- Chapter 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 -- Chapter 3 Understanding the Institutional Context -- 1 Vestments -- 2 Church Rituals -- Chapter 4 Reading the Documents -- 1 Eleventh-Century Written Evidence -- 2 Twelfth-Century Written Evidence -- 3 Gifting, the Miraculous, the Purely Political -- Chapter 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) -- Chapter 6 Declaring the Winner -- Conclusions -- Appendices -- 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 -- Back Cover.