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EP - 104 - Plucked to Perfection: Medieval Beauty Gone Wild!
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Ever wondered why medieval women were out there plucking their hairlines like their lives depended on it?
Join me as we dig into the bizarre beauty trend that left brows bald and foreheads freakishly high. Turns out, looking like a pious, pale ghost was peak hotness in the Middle Ages. We're talking virtue, control, and erasing yourself to fit an impossible ideal. Strap in—it’s about to get weird.
Are. You. Ready?
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Sources & References:
- The Trotula: A Medieval Compendium of Women’s Medicine, ed. and trans. Monica H. Green (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001).
- Karras, Ruth Mazo. Unmarriages: Women, Men, and Sexual Unions in the Middle Ages. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012.
- Heller, Sarah-Grace. Fashion in Medieval France. Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
- Phillips, Kim M. Medieval Maidens: Young Women and Gender in England, 1270–1540. Manchester University Press, 2003.
- Classen, Albrecht. “Beauty and Cosmetics in the Middle Ages.” In Handbook of Medieval Culture, 2015.
- Green, Monica H. “Women’s Medical Practice and Health Care in Medieval Europe.” Signs, Vol. 14, No. 2 (1989).
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art – Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History: “Fashion in Fifteenth-Century Europe.”
- Images referenced: Rogier van der Weyden, Portrait of a Lady (c. 1460).
Quotes from Dr. Eleanor Janega in this episode are paraphrased based on ideas discussed in her book The Once and Future Sex, her blog Going Medieval, and various interviews and media appearances.
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