Mitre with the Stoning of St Stephen and the Murder of Thomas Becket

Silk: Middle East or Byzantium (?), embroidery: England, ca 1200

Embroidery in gold thread on white silk, weft-faced compound twill

17,3 cm

Inv.-Nr. T 17

From Seligenthal Monastery near Landshut, acquired before 1866

Gallery 6

On its front the mitre shows a representation of the murder of Thomas Becket and on its reverse the Stoning of St Stephen. Soon after his death Thomas Becket came to be venerated in England as a martyr who had died for the freedom of the church. Depictions of his martyrdom in gold embroidery, especially mitres elaborately embroidered in gold thread (opus anglicanum) acted to propagate the cult throughout the European continent.

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