Priests and their wigs in eighteenth-century Rome
The wig was the quintessential accessory of eighteenth-century European culture, but the wearing of wigs by clerics became a subject of heated controversy across Catholic societies. Critics of clerical wig-wearing pointed to its inherent vanity, to Paul’s proscription against men covering their head...
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Cambridge University Press
2024
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