‘On Sundays for the laity … we allow mass vestments, altars and candles to remain’: e Role of Pre-Reformation Ecclesiastical Vestments in the Formation of Confessional, Corporate and ‘National’ Identities

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‘On Sundays for the laity … we allow mass vestments, altars and candles to remain’: e Role of Pre-Reformation Ecclesiastical Vestments in the Formation of Confessional, Corporate and ‘National’ Identities

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Nonetheless, in some areas, archival evidence, as well as individual examples, has survived to provide important insights into the place of vestments in the material culture and liturgy of Lutheran churches during the early modern period.