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- Title
A Question of Tradition: Catholic Reformers on Gregory the Great's Beard.
- Authors
Maskarinec, Maya
- Abstract
This article investigates the ideological implications of Pope Gregory the Great's beard for Catholic reformers of the sixteenth century. It argues that the portrayal of Gregory as clean-shaven, with a "moderate" beard, or with a long bushy beard (all representations that are to be found in sixteenth-and seventeenth-century Roman art and scholarship) take us to the heart of interlocking Catholic Reform debates on the "Romanness" of the Roman church and the vexed question of how to evaluate late antique and medieval Christian tradition for the Christian present.
- Subjects
GREGORY I, Pope, ca. 540-604; BEARDS in art; SAINTS in art; BEARDS in religion; CATHOLIC Church &; art; 16TH century Catholic Church history; 17TH century Catholic Church history; COUNTER-Reformation &; art
- Publication
Sixteenth Century Journal, 2020, Vol 51, Issue 3, p651
- ISSN
0361-0160
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1086/scj5103001