A Cultural History of Hair in the Middle Ages
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Academic
- Date of Publication 25 August 2022
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9781350285484
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages256 pages
- Size 242x170x14 mm
- Weight 480 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 83 bw illus 0
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Long description:
"A thick, tangled and deliciously idiosyncratic history of hair." Times Literary Supplement
The Middle Ages were a time of great innovation, artistic vigor, and cultural richness. Appearances mattered a great deal during this vibrant era and hair was a key marker of the dynamism and sophistication of the period. Hair became ever more central to religious iconography, from Mary Magdalen to the Virgin Mary, while vernacular poets embellished their verses with descriptions of hairstyles both humble and elaborate, and merchants imported the finest hair products from great distances.
Drawing on a wealth of visual, textual and object sources, the volume examines how hairstyles and their representations developed-often to a degree of dazzling complexity-between the years AD 800 and AD 1450. From wimpled matrons and tonsured monks to adorned noblewomen, hair is revealed as a potent cultural symbol of gender, age, sexuality, health, class, and race.
Illustrated with approximately 80 images, A Cultural History of Hair in the Middle Ages brings together leading scholars to present an overview of the period with essays on politics, science, religion, fashion, beauty, the visual arts, and popular culture.
Table of Contents:
Series Preface
Introduction
1. Religion and Ritualized Belief, Alexa Sand
2. Self and Society, Hanna Hopwood
3. Fashion and Adornment, Laura Diener
4. Production and Practice, Laura Diener
5. Health and Hygiene, Fernando Salmón and Montserrat Cabré
6. Gender and Sexuality, Martha Easton
7. Race and Ethnicity, Kim M. Phillips
8. Class and Social Status, John Friedman
9. Cultural Representations, Penny Howell Jolly
Notes
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index
A Cultural History of Hair in the Middle Ages
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