What did priests wear? Specifically, what did 'secular' priests (ones not attached to a monastic or mendicant order) wear in the 15th century in England? Would it basically follow civilian fashions?
Where could I find out more?
I ask because I've been mulling over a priest impression for a while and wanted to know what it would look like.
-Will
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Piers Brent wrote:Short answer is yes. They are suppose to wear clothing with decorum so basically a long gown.
It is a very difficult impression, your better off starting off with a clerk of some sort.
Long gown is what I thought.
Why did you mention that it would be a difficult impression -- do you mean materially intensive (books, for instance, everything needed to live up to my station) or knowledge intensive (knowing a lot of prayers in latin, bits of theology, etc.)
I was implying knowledge intensive and on a level with few other impressions because there is a lot of pressure to get it right because if you don't you offend people and will get called out on it.
Now thinking about it, it certainly has the potential to be material intensive, because you kind of need lots of things for even a mobile chapel.
Go with clerk, who is lower clergy. You can always move that direction which would be historically possible as well.
Now thinking about it, it certainly has the potential to be material intensive, because you kind of need lots of things for even a mobile chapel.
Go with clerk, who is lower clergy. You can always move that direction which would be historically possible as well.