CHAPTER II. THE EARLY DEVELOPMENT OF ECCLESIASTICAL VESTMENTS IN THE WESTERN CHURCH 24 CHAPTER III. THE FINAL FORM OF VESTMENTS IN THE WESTERN CHURCH 60 CHAPTER IV. THE HISTORY AND CHARACTERISTICS OF THE PROCESSIONAL VESTMENTS; THE ORNAMENTATION OF VESTMENTS 137 CHAPTER V. THE VESTMENTS OF THE EASTERN CHURCHES 175 CHAPTER VI. THE VESTMENTS OF THE REFORMED CHURCHES 192 CHAPTER VII. THE RITUAL USES OF VESTMENTS 211 APPENDIX I. COSTUMES OF THE RELIGIOUS ORDERS 235 MEDIAEVAL UNIVERSITY COSTUME 253 APPENDIX II. AN INDEX OF SYNONYMOUS TERMS 257 APPENDIX III. A LIST OF THE PRINCIPAL AUTHORITIES REFERRED TO IN THE COMPILATION OF THIS WORK 258 INDEX 262 [Illustration] [Illustration] LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS (_For full titles of sources followed see Appendix III_) FIG. PAGE BRASS OF SIMON DE WENSLAGH, WENSLEY, YORKS _Frontispiece_ 1. VESTMENTS OF THE JEWISH PRIESTHOOD. (_After Bock_) 5 2. BISHOP ADMINISTERING BAPTISM. (_Marriott_) 37 3. ECCLESIASTICS FROM THE MOSAICS IN S VITALE, RAVENNA. (_Rock_) 46 4. EFFIGY OF A ROMAN CITIZEN IN CAERLEON MUSEUM. (_Bloxam_) 49 5. POPE GREGORY THE GREAT WITH PASTORAL STAFF. (_Smith and Cheetham_) 57 6. STOLE-ENDS, SHOWING VARIETIES IN FORM AND ORNAMENT. (_Archæological Association Journal_) 73 7. ARCHBISHOP STIGAND, FROM THE BAYEUX TAPESTRY. (_Willemin_) 76 8. DEACON IN EPISCOPAL DALMATIC. (_Building News_) 78 9. DEACON IN DIACONAL DALMATIC. (_Rock_) 78 10. SIR PETER LEGH, KNIGHT AND PRIEST. (_Haines_) 84 11. BISHOP WAYNFLETE'S EPISCOPAL SANDAL. (_Rock_) 92 12. S DUNSTAN (FROM A MS. IN THE COTTONIAN LIBRARY). (_Marriott_) 97 13. MONUMENT OF ALBRECHT VON BRANDENBURG, MAYENCE 101 14. BISHOP WAYNFLETE'S EPISCOPAL STOCKING. (_Rock_) 105 15. FIGURE OF A POPE (_temp._ INNOCENT III). (_Rock_) 108 16. A BISHOP, SALISBURY CATHEDRAL. (_Bloxam_) 117 17. MONUMENT OF DIETHER VON ISENBURG, MAYENCE 117 18. PASTORAL STAFF AND MITRA PRETIOSA. (_Bloxam_) 120 19. BRASS OF ARCHDEACON MAGNUS, SESSAY, YORKSHIRE 147