[PDF.59vb] Ambiguous Locks: An Iconology of Hair in Medieval Art and Literature

Ambiguous Locks: An Iconology of Hair in Medieval Art and Literature

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Excellent Resource and Historical Study|By Heller25|First, this is a remarkable book, a wonderfully detailed and perspicacious academic study of women's hair in the middle ages. The treatment of the subject is exhaustive, as it should be in a scholarly text. Milliken is a particularly good historian and analyst. Since it is a scholarly book, I'm surprised one reviewer here woul| |"examines representations of women's hair in works from the early medieval through the Early modern period and explores the ways in which these depictions communicated ideas about the roles, value and sexuality of women during the period."--SciTech Book New

It has long been said that a woman’s hair is her crowning glory. Indeed, throughout history, hair has remained an important cultural symbol of femininity. In medieval art, iconic images of long, flowing locks can express sexuality, and the cutting of a woman’s hair often signals her feminine misbehavior. Artists of all kinds in the Middle Ages used women’s long hair to manipulate their audience’s estimation of their female figures. This interdisci...

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