9780801449826-0801449820-Clothing the Clergy: Virtue and Power in Medieval Europe, c. 800–1200

Clothing the Clergy: Virtue and Power in Medieval Europe, c. 800–1200

ISBN-13: 9780801449826
ISBN-10: 0801449820
Edition: 1
Author: Maureen C. Miller
Publication date: 2014
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Format: Hardcover 304 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780801449826
ISBN-10: 0801449820
Edition: 1
Author: Maureen C. Miller
Publication date: 2014
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Format: Hardcover 304 pages

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Clothing the Clergy: Virtue and Power in Medieval Europe, c. 800–1200 (ISBN-13: 9780801449826 and ISBN-10: 0801449820), written by authors Maureen C. Miller, was published by Cornell University Press in 2014. With an overall rating of 4.1 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent Clothing the Clergy: Virtue and Power in Medieval Europe, c. 800–1200 (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.3.

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After initial ambivalence about distinctive garb for its ministers, early Christianity developed both liturgical garments and visible markers of clerical status outside church. From the ninth century, moreover, new converts to the faith beyond the Alps developed a highly ornate style of liturgical attire; church vestments were made of precious silks and decorated with embroidered and woven ornament, often incorporating gold and jewels. Making use of surviving medieval textiles and garments; mosaics, frescoes, and manuscript illuminations; canon law; liturgical sources; literary works; hagiography; theological tracts; chronicles, letters, inventories of ecclesiastical treasuries, and wills, Maureen C. Miller in Clothing the Clergy traces the ways in which clerical garb changed over the Middle Ages. Miller’s in-depth study of the material culture of church vestments not only goes into detail about craft, artistry, and textiles but also contributes in groundbreaking ways to our understanding of the religious, social, and political meanings of clothing, past and present.

As a language of power, clerical clothing was used extensively by eleventh-century reformers to mark hierarchies, to cultivate female patrons, and to make radical new claims for the status of the clergy. The medieval clerical culture of clothing had enduring significance: its cultivation continued within Catholicism and even some Protestant denominations and it influenced the visual communication of respectability and power in the modern Western world. Clothing the Clergy features seventy-nine illustrations, including forty color photographs that put the rich variety of church vestments on display.

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