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1media/Screen Shot 2022-11-16 at 12.35.58 AM_thumb.png2022-11-15T21:39:57-08:00Elizabeth Griffith88d5cade55b1586c8abf308311a3248c872ba89c394471This seal was from the mid 13th century and features a different abbot of the benedictine order also wearing a miter. This seal was another one of the first in its collection to feature an abbot wearing a miter.plain2022-11-15T21:39:57-08:00Elizabeth Griffith88d5cade55b1586c8abf308311a3248c872ba89c
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12022-06-16T12:23:57-07:00When was this made?10plain2023-01-15T11:45:09-08:00This miter was made in the thirteenth century. This century contained decades of crusading battles, beginning with the Fourth Crusade (to Byzantine Constantinople) and concluding with the crusade that many count as the last, the Eighth Crusade (to Tunisia in North Africa). Many twelfth and thirteenth century seals of abbots and bishops depicted ecclesiastical vestments. These seals show religious figures wearing miters along with their liturgical vestments in the early thirteenth century, suggesting that the popularity of miters increased around then. There are records of earlier miters, but it seems like more of them were produced in the thirteenth century.
