Beards and the Construction of Facial Appearance in the Middle Ages
BHAP-HA+SCANT
- Bacci, Michele ORCID Université de Fribourg
- 2022
Published in:
- L’éloquence du visage entre Orient et Occident / Voskoboynikov, Oleg. - Florence: Sismel. - 2022, p. 115-131
Medieval art
Medieval visuality
Beards
Facial Hair
Individual Appearance
Politics
Heraclius
Byzantine art
Art médiéval
Oiseaux
Art byzantin
Héraclius
Art et politique
Apparence physique
English
The present paper deals with the role played by beards as a signifier of political power in Medieval societies. More specifically, it reconstructs the dynamics by which Byzantine emperors came to break with the centuries-old tradition of the Roman ruler's shaven look to adopt a bearded appearance, which was not without prompting reactions among their contemporaries.
- Faculty
- Faculté des lettres et des sciences humaines
- Department
- Département d'histoire de l'art et d'archéologie
- Language
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- English
- Classification
- Art history
- License
- License undefined
- Open access status
- green
- Persistent URL
- https://folia.unifr.ch/unifr/documents/319819
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