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...

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.