On the Fringes of Center: Disputed Hagiographic Imagery and the Crisis over theBeati moderniin Rome ca. 1600

• Published in: Renaissance quarterly Vol. 64; no. 3; pp. 800 - 846
• Main Author: Noyes, Ruth S.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: The Renaissance Society of America 01.09.2011
• Subjects: Altars; Catholicism; Censorship; Persona; Popes; Religious buildings; Sanctity; Society of Jesus; Studies; Veneration

This article sets forth, through a small collection of case studies, the extent to which the literal and pictorial figures of theBeati moderniconstituted potentially provocative and disputed hermeneutical territory between particular religious constituencies, in this case the Oratorians and the Jesu...