Inful

Red miter with infuln

origin

Inful , Latin infula , also vitta , originally referred to a wool band placed broadly or turban-like around the forehead, the ends of which hung down at the neck. It was mainly worn by the Roman priests during cult acts of the Roman religion as a sign of their religious consecration and inviolability .

Meaning in Christianity

The word inful is used as a synonym for the designation miter for the bishop's cap from the 11th century ; the ribbons hanging from the miter of a bishop are called infuln . “Infulizing” therefore means giving someone the right (on account of honor) to wear a miter - this usually means the papal privilege towards abbots (so-called “infulized abbots”) or other prelates ( infulized prelates ). There were also infuled cathedral provosts , cathedral deans , or cathedral scholasters . Also provosts of a collegiate could get this privilege, for. B. the infuliert provost of the collegiate monastery Altötting . In Poland, the term infułat is common for inful clergy and religious .

Furthermore, the altar server is called Mitrafer or Infularius , who holds the miter in the pontifical office when the liturgy provides for it to be removed.

Imperial insignia

Imperial crown with infuln

In the late Middle Ages , the imperial headdress - probably including the imperial crown - was referred to as infulae imperiales , for example in Chapter 26 of the Golden Bull of 1356. In older German historiography, the term Infeln was occasionally derived from this, for example from Albert Huyskens .

literature

Anne Viola Siebert : Infula. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 5, Metzler, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-476-01475-4 , Sp. 998 (with references to sources).
Inful. In: Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon . Volume 9: skin tissue to jonicus. New impression, 6th, completely revised and increased edition. Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig et al. 1907, p. 826, ( digitized version ).

Individual evidence

↑ General schematic of the clerical staff of the Diocese of Linz, covering the years 1885 to 1915 (Erg.-Bd. 1/1916) , p. 4 (digitized version of the Upper Austrian regional library ).

↑ cf. Infułat . In: Zygmunt Gloger: Encyklopedja Staropolska Ilustrowana. Vol. 2. P. Laskauera i W. Babickiego, Warsaw 1900, pp. 271 f.

^ Albert Huyskens : The Aachen crown of the golden bull, the symbol of the old German empire. In: German Archive for Research into the Middle Ages . Vol. 2, 1938, pp. 401-497, here pp. 412, 414.

Web links

Publications on the Inful in the Opac of the Regesta Imperii

[1] General schematic of the clerical staff of the Diocese of Linz, covering the years 1885 to 1915 (Erg.-Bd. 1/1916) , p. 4 (digitized version of the Upper Austrian regional library ).

[2] . Infułat . In: Zygmunt Gloger: Encyklopedja Staropolska Ilustrowana. Vol. 2. P. Laskauera i W. Babickiego, Warsaw 1900, pp. 271 f.

[3] Albert Huyskens : The Aachen crown of the golden bull, the symbol of the old German empire. In: German Archive for Research into the Middle Ages . Vol. 2, 1938, pp. 401-497, here pp. 412, 414.