Clothing the Clergy: Virtue and Power in Medieval Europe, C. 800 1200 - Paperback
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Clothing the Clergy: Virtue and Power in Medieval Europe, C. 800 1200
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...
Maureen C. Miller is Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of The Bishop's Palace: Architecture and Authority in Medieval Italy and The Formation of a Medieval Church: Ecclesiastical Change in Verona, 950-1150, both from Cornell, and Power and the Holy in the Age of the Investiture Conflict: A Brief Documentary History.
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