{"product_id":"clothing-the-clergy-virtue-and-power-in-medieval-europe-c-800-1200-paperback-1","title":"Clothing the Clergy: Virtue and Power in Medieval Europe, C. 800 1200 - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMaureen C. Miller\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter 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 \u003ci\u003eClothing the Clergy\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eClothing the Clergy\u003c\/i\u003e features seventy-nine illustrations, including forty color photographs that put the rich variety of church vestments on display.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaureen C. Miller is Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Bishop's Palace: Architecture and Authority in Medieval Italy\u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e The Formation of a Medieval Church: Ecclesiastical Change in Verona, 950-1150\u003c\/i\u003e, both from Cornell, and \u003ci\u003ePower and the Holy in the Age of the Investiture Conflict: A Brief Documentary History\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 9.9 x 7 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 15, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42592630046816,"sku":"9780801479434","price":121.37,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0598\/1922\/9280\/files\/V0RFbDRMMnYzdFg5bmNUamxIc3plQT09.webp?v=1771458924","url":"https:\/\/bijoucc.myshopify.com\/products\/clothing-the-clergy-virtue-and-power-in-medieval-europe-c-800-1200-paperback-1","provider":"CARIBBEAN CONNECT","version":"1.0","type":"link"}