... a spermatozoon at a well-defined point of the acrosome reaction, these findings indicate that the acrosome reaction of the fertilizing spermatozoon must be exactly synchronized with its penetration through the egg vestments, apparently by the action of specific acrosome reaction-promoting substances...

...This chapter explores the ideas at the heart of Puritanism, examining Tobie Matthew’s early radicalism. Using the controversies over vestments in 1564–6 and the visit of Elizabeth I to the University of Oxford in 1566, the chapter shows that the idea of ‘edification’ became a central principle...

...This chapter looks at an example of ancient ritual discourse about clothing—the significance of the vestments in Jewish sources on sacrifice in the Hellenistic and Roman periods. The vestments of the high priest form a key component of the ritual system and constitute a complex semiotic system...

... furniture, each item of Aaron’s wardrobe is described in considerable detail and attributed instrumental significance. Aaron’s vestments are designed both to blend into the environment of the tabernacle, but also to ensure that God is attentive to the inscribed items of Aaron’s dress which ensures he...

... relics vestments sacramentals devotional books Mass equipment pilgrimage rosary agnus dei On the eve of the reformations that fractured religious institutions and communities across the British Isles, material culture was interwoven into the fabric of Christian belief and practice. Physical...

...Gregory interprets the priestly vestments in terms of virtue. He equates the priestly robe with an airy, angelic garment, in contrast to the heavy and fleshy garment of life. As he continues with his interpretation of the other vestments, he stresses again and again the twofold nature of virtue...

... on the continent. He was opposed to the wearing of clerical vestments, and he dismissed the notion of a legitimate place for adiaphora or “indifferent matters.” He was an effective bishop during the reign of Edward VI, but was later martyred by Queen Mary Tudor. Bunyan John Cranmer Thomas Discipline England...

...This chapter deals with the evolution of the Byzantine liturgical vestments from eleventh up to the fourteenth centuries and its relation to the imperial court. It argues that the progressive changes, referred to as ‘inflationary pressures’, in the liturgical iconography is parallel...

... on the vestments of the clergy. Examining the surviving Byzantine vestments in conjunction with contemporary visual and textual evidence, this book relates their embroidered imagery both to the program of images used in churches, and to the hierarchical code of dress prevailing in the imperial court. Both sets...

..., it describes the sorts of ecclesiastical paraphernalia such as books, vestments, and liturgical equipment that were crafted to help bring simple souls to God. churches ecclesiastical luxury gold Helgaudus of Fleury Robert the Pious King Sainte Marie monastery of Bernard of Clairvaux Constantine...

...This chapter discusses counterfabrication and Christian cosmetics in order to highlight the pervasive concern for attractiveness and proximity to God. The argument applies to Apostolic vestments that, like Christian cosmetics, figure in prescription. The afflicted person has to be diapolwe...

..., including Jerome’s focus on the Hebrew text and his view of Jews as the source of the literal, historical, and Hebraic readings. In the one case where he draws extensively on Philo’s allegorical interpretation of the priestly vestments in Epistle 64, Jerome minimizes his source, subsuming...

... Joe Hackett. Alcorn, in his 1988 novel Vestments, dramatizes the encounter between self and the other in the context of the Catholic understanding of sacrament and sacramentality. In The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse, Erdrich focuses...

... of a vestural hierarchy to separate deacons, priests, bishops, and patriarchs in the form of ensembles of the insignia. This chapter discusses the evidence for when figural embroidery was first utilized as part of the vestments of the church. Braun Joseph Catholic Church England anagnostai ‘readers’ minor...

...The embroideries of liturgical vestments have put religious principles into visual imagery resulting into a deeper understanding of the nature of the Church and the meaning of its liturgy. Such adding of images to clerical vestments is part of an expansive trend in the Late Byzantine Church...

...This chapter reveals the “hidden years” of Knox's life, specifically the years between 1565 and 1567, in which Knox had entered into a self-imposed internal exile and encountered Goodman once more during his journey to England. There, he found himself embroiled in the vestments controversy and came...

... at least, addressed directly, or referred to, in liturgical texts themselves, even in the large monastic corpus of hymns and prayers. Among the various categories of Byzantine works of art, the vestments and the liturgical implements are the only ones whose design and decoration are unquestionably...

... Jerusalem Judah sanctuary purification and atonement of Second Temple Period Leviticus altar מִזְבֵּחַ atonement cover כַּפֹּרֶת laver כִּיּוֹר ark the אֲרוֹן divine presence tent of meeting אֹהֶל מוֹעֵד Exodus linen שֵׁשׁ בַּד vestments Propp William Henry cherubim כְּרֻבִים Numbers 1 Chronicles...

... in architectural settings (notably on dedication stones, but also elsewhere as the example on the arch to the south porticus of Breamore church, Hampshire, shows), on stone sculptures, fonts, and sundials (Pl. 20a), in painted wall decoration, on vessels, vestments, and hangings, and as part of shrines and altars...

..., such as the almost complete absence of Eucharistic vestments amongst Tractarians before 1860, does not sustain such a conclusion. On the other hand, contemporary evidence points clearly to the realization amongst Ritualists themselves and periodical writers that there had been a sudden shift of emphasis about 1860...