Is this something they took from druids?
And why did they stop wearing this most of the time for some boring black dress?
Why do western Christian clergy dress like wizards?
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Is this something they took from druids?
And why did they stop wearing this most of the time for some boring black dress?
Pagan oriental influences
I know someone will ree at you eventually for that, but can someone explain what the alternative explanation for the wacky hat is? Like, it’s a very specific headgear design. Where did it come from if not fishheads?
The mitre comes from the Pope of Alexandria, before he started doing it, all bishops were hatless
It kinda looked like this, he started wearing it a few hundred years before anyone else.
It got popular, for some reason, in the west in the 11th century, and the western bishops mitre evolves somewhat along this path
It also evolved in Egypt as the hat of married clergy, very similar but without the split.
Meanwhile the mitre evolved in the east into a much more crownlike shape.
People say its supposed to resemble the byzantine crown but it clearly doesnt. They only really say that because it starts showing up in the 15th century
>People say its supposed to resemble the byzantine crown but it clearly doesnt.
It clearly does.
The Byzantine style crown looks like this in reality (surviving sample), which isn't very like the big hourglass crown shape of modern bishops
That's from the 12th century, worn by a woman, and made locally in Italy. 14th and 15th century Byzantine depictions are plenty bulbous.
Byzantium fell in 1204 anyways, Nicaean Empire had no real continuation of the Roman institutions or bureaucracy and was closer to feudal France than what it was prior. Took nearly as long for Nicea to claim the Roman throne as it did for the German Empire to form after the HRE fell. Obviously going to change and not be the same.
Unsurprising the crown changed design in all this.
>the deepwater israelite
I get it
Just wanted to announce,
I get it now
the israeli clergy also had fancy dresses
Looks like some dynasty warriors rebel
No they did not. There were rules against mixing threads.
They did. The rule is believed by some to have existed because mixed threads were considered to exclusively be permitted to the Kohen Gadol. The materials and processes for the creation of his eight vestments are explicitly described in Vayikra and Shemot. The Choshen (breastplate) of the High Priest was made from mixed threads, and so was his Ephod (vest).
Like spotted. Shit, is it really israelites making all these threads?
israelite*
christianity is r1b
christianity is semitic, cope
Take meds
That's the Late Roman equlivent to wearing a suit. The Cossack is the Late Roman equlivent to wearing jeans and a flannel. Chrisitan clergy is ancient so they retained clothing from many centuries ago.
Doesn't look similar to me
Anyone who takes these clowns seriously has to be a NPC.
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Nice robes but what's with the silly hats?
It's where the trope originates. Same for the spellbook and "hocus pocus".
At least it's what I like to imagine.
Interestingly, there was a debate about whether to adopt the Roman tonsure, or the Irish tonsure (which is how the druids wore their hair). They decided on the Roman style, which is the stereotypical monk's haircut to this day.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonsure#:~:text=The%20Celtic%20tonsure%20was%20worn,the%208th%20and%209th%20centuries.
the further removed you get from chalcedonian christianity the stranger the hats become
Because wizard imagery was influenced by how the clergy dressed it is not hard to understand.
>"western Christianity" is not LE BASED like our eastern Christianity
Sorry Ivan, not gonna stop helping Ukrainians kill you.
back in the day it helped make jesus popular