Book Review: Clothing the clergy. Virtue and power in medieval Europe, c. 800-1200

Clothing the clergy. Virtue and power in medieval Europe, c. 800-1200 . By Maureen C. Miller . Pp. xviii + 286 incl. 79 black-and-white and colour ills. Ithaca-London : Cornell University Press , 2014. $89.95 (paper). 978 0 8014 4982 6 ; 978 0 8014 7943 4

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Maureen C. Miller shows how the development of a new, highly ornate style of liturgical attire was used throughout the Carolingian Empire to promote clerical virtue and to announce the increasing power of bishops. From the mid-ninth century, the successors of Charlemagne embraced the new style of gold-ornamented vestments made of costly silks, as opposed...