"A thick, tangled and deliciously idiosyncratic history of hair."
Times Literary Supplement In the period 1450 to 1650 in Europe,
hair was braided, curled, shaped, cut, colored, covered, decorated,
supplemented, removed, and reused in magic, courtship, and art,
amongst other things. On the body, Renaissance men and women often
considered hair a signifier of order and civility. Hair style and
the head coverings worn by many throughout the period marked not
only the wearer's engagement with fashion, but also moral,
religious, social, and political beliefs. Hair established
individuals' positions in the period's social hierarchy and
signified class, gender, and racial identities, as well as
distinctions of age and marital and professional status. Such a
meaningful part of the body, however, could also be disorderly,
when it grew where it wasn't supposed to or transgressed the body's
boundaries by being wild, uncovered, unpinned, or uncut. A natural
material with cultural import, hair weaves together the Renaissance
histories of fashion, politics, religion, gender, science,
medicine, art, literature, and material culture. A necessarily
interdisciplinary study, A Cultural History of Hair in the
Renaissance explores the multiple meanings of hair, as well as the
ideas and practices it inspired. Separate chapters contemplate
Religion and Ritualized Belief, Self and Society, Fashion and
Adornment, Production and Practice, Health and Hygiene, Sexuality
and Gender, Race and Ethnicity, Class and Social Status, and
Cultural Representations.
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