Lice and Licentiousness

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In 1326 the women of Florence petitioned the Duchess of Calabria to ask her husband the duke to relax legislation preventing them from wearing false hair, part of a package of sumptuary laws that ordered people to wear clothing, accessories, and hairstyles suitable to their social positions. Class identification was so integral to social order […]

Original source: https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2022/10/20/lice-and-licentiousness-hair-in-the-middle-ages/

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