The Mitre: Its Origins and Early Development / / Nancy Spies.
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...
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Superior document: | Art and Material Culture in Medieval and Renaissance Europe ; 21 |
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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) |
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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.