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A Cultural History of Hair in the Renaissance

Buch | Hardcover

232 Seiten

2021
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-4742-3205-0 (ISBN)

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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.

Edith Snook is Professor of English at the University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada.

Series Preface
Introduction
1. Religion and Ritualized Belief
2. Self and Society
3. Fashion and Adornment
4. Production and Practice
5. Health and Hygiene
6. Gender and Sexuality
7. Race and Ethnicity
8. Class and Social Status
9. Cultural Representations
Notes
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	18.01.2021
Reihe/Serie	The Cultural Histories Series
Zusatzinfo	75-100 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	169 x 244 mm
Gewicht	590 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Design / Innenarchitektur / Mode
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-4742-3205-1 / 1474232051
ISBN-13	978-1-4742-3205-0 / 9781474232050
Zustand	Neuware