Ecclesiastical Vestments: Their Development and History. By R. A. S. MacAlister
by Robert Alexander Stewart Macalister
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About this eBook
- Author
- Macalister, Robert Alexander Stewart, 1870-1950
- Title
- Ecclesiastical Vestments: Their development and history
- Credits
- Produced by deaurider, Chris Pinfield, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- BV: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion: Christianity: Practical theology, Worship
- Subject
- Church vestments
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 56494
- Release Date
- February 4, 2018
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.ECCLESIASTICAL VESTMENTS:
- 2.PREFACE
- 3.CONTENTS
- 4.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS — ERRATA.
- 5.CHAPTER I. THE GENESIS OF ECCLESIASTICAL VESTMENTS.
- 6.CHAPTER II. THE EARLY DEVELOPMENT OF ECCLESIASTICAL VESTMENTS IN THE WESTERN CHURCH.
- 7.CHAPTER III. THE FINAL FORM OF VESTMENTS IN THE WESTERN CHURCH.
- 8.CHAPTER IV. THE HISTORY AND CHARACTERISTICS OF THE PROCESSIONAL VESTMENTS; THE ORNAMENTATION OF VESTMENTS. — Group I — Flowers: — Birds and beasts, or parts thereof: — Miscellaneous: — Group II — Divine Persons: — Incidents in the life of Our Lord, and His emblems: — Members of the Holy Host of Heaven: — Scenes in the life of St Mary the Virgin and her emblems: — Other Saints and their emblems: — Various Scenes in Sacred History: — Uncertain and Miscellaneous Subjects: — Inscriptions: — Group III — Heraldic: — Names, Initials, and Dedicatory Inscriptions:
- 9.CHAPTER V. THE VESTMENTS OF THE EASTERN CHURCHES.
- 10.CHAPTER VI. THE VESTMENTS OF THE REFORMED CHURCHES. — § I. The Lutheran Churches. — § II. The Anglican Church. — § III. The Reformed Churches of Spain and Portugal. — § IV. The Presbyterian Church.
- 11.CHAPTER VII. THE RITUAL USES OF VESTMENTS.
- 12.APPENDIX I. COSTUMES OF THE RELIGIOUS ORDERS. — Monks. — Nuns. — Mediaeval University Costume. — APPENDIX II. AN INDEX OF SYNONYMOUS TERMS. — APPENDIX III. A LIST OF THE PRINCIPAL AUTHORITIES REFERRED TO IN THE COMPILATION OF THIS WORK.
- 13.INDEX.
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