"Of Beards and Men: The Revealing History of Facial Hair" Topic
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| Tango01 | 29 Dec 2015 9:27 p.m. PST |
"Page 99 offers a fair reflection of what is on offer in Of Beards and Men: the Revealing History of Facial Hair. It discusses the self-fashioning of medieval French kings and crusaders, who helped establish a strong conceptual link between virtue and the shaved face that endures to this day. I write that "Louis VII was [in 1144] setting two precedents for French royalty: piety and beardlessness. Over the next three and a half centuries, the former was not regularly observed, but the latter was. It proved easier to look virtuous than be virtuous." King Louis was also leader of the Second Crusade, and his knightly retainers similarly shaved or cropped off their beards in the style of the holy pilgrims they saw themselves to be. Earlier pages of this chapter provide the background for this style choice by explaining how and why medieval church theologians favored shaving as a symbol of spiritual and moral discipline…"
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 ochoin  | 29 Dec 2015 11:29 p.m. PST |
I moustache you to stop posting such trivia, Armand! |
| COL Scott ret | 30 Dec 2015 12:29 a.m. PST |
I am sure he is bristling at the thought of shaving any more posts- he might loose face. |
| WaynesLegion | 30 Dec 2015 9:37 a.m. PST |
In all hair-ness, Dr. Oldstone-Moore is pretty great. He was my first year, college-level "Western Civilization Until 1500" professor. |
| Tango01 | 30 Dec 2015 10:14 a.m. PST |
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