The wimple, also spelled whimple, was a very common head covering for women of the Middle Ages (c. Popular from the twelfth through the fifteenth centuries, wimples were light veils, usually made of linen or silk, which were fastened all the way around the neck, up to the chin.
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A large piece of cloth that draped under the chin, covering the front of the neck. It was probably attached with pins to the barbette or fillet. The wimple appeared in the later part of the twelfth century.
Related term(s):Barbette; Fillet; Veil; Chaplet
Category:Clothing
Added:11.05.04
Source information:Singman, Jeffrey L. Daily Life in Medieval Europe. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1999. 44.
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A wimple is a medieval form of female headdress, formed of a large piece of cloth worn around the neck and chin, and covering the top of the head. Its use developed in early medieval Europe. At many stages of medieval Christian culture it was unseemly for a married woman to show her hair. A wimple might be elaborately starched, and creased and folded in prescribed ways, and later elaborated versions were supported on wire or wicker framing, such as the cornette.
Italian women abandoned their head cloths in the 15th century, or replaced them with transparent gauze, and showed their elaborate braids. Both elaborate braiding and elaborately laundered clothes demonstrated status, in that such grooming was being performed by others. Today the wimple is worn by certain nuns who retain a traditional habit.[3]
In literature[edit]
The Wife of Bath and the Prioress are depicted wearing wimples in the Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343–1400).
The King James Version of the Bible explicitly lists wimples in Isaiah 3:22 as one of a list of female fineries; however, the Hebrew word 'miṭpaḥoth' (מִטְפָּחוֹת) means 'kerchief'.
Medieval Wimple Headdress
See also[edit]
Medieval Wimple And Veil
- Hijab, the Islamic head covering worn by Muslim women
References[edit]
- ^Macklin, Herbert Walter & Page-Phillips, John, (Eds.), 1969, p.68[1]
- ^Macklin, Herbert Walter & Page-Phillips, John, (Eds.), 1969, p.69
- ^Heron, Lynford (January 18, 2003). 'Woman, Prayer & Head Covering'. Centurion Ministry. Archived from the original on 2010-03-18.