Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · London : Bickers & Son · leaf 358
, bearing across or a book of the Gospels, or perhaps both, as he isportrayed in an ancient mosaic in St. Lawrence-without-the-walls, at Rome. It must also be noted that the deaconsand the priests, as well as the clerks of a lower order, arerepresented as beardless and with short-cut hair. In the… … Fig. 224.—The Ecclesiastical Tonsure.—Miniature from the Kationale Divi-norum Officiorum of William Durand(Manuscript of the Fourteenth Century),Library of M. Ambroise Firmin-Didot. 280 THE SECULAR CLERGY. hair more or less long with a proportionate amount of beard, and the monkscut their hair…
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