Year: 2013
Type: article
Abstract: There were two ways of the clerical tonsure in the Orthodox Church during the middle Ages. The cutting of four locks of hair in the shape of cross and circular tonsure. The wreath of hair around the shaved top of the head symbolized Christ?s crown of thorns. The archpriests of the Serbian Orthodox Church were practicing circular tonsure, from its founder Sava until the middle of the 17th century.
DOI: 10.2298/zrvi1350987m
Author: Bojan Miljkovic
Institution: Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
Language: English
Subfield: Classics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
Award: G8838490048
OpenAlex ID: W2094495265