Attempts to gloss over the future corpse in vain

With the conquest of Gaul, the Romans faced not with the wild creatures. There, they met men and women who showed a clear tendency to a variety of tricks to achieve beauty. However, only subjects found in burial mounds can be judged on what skin care products and hair they are applied. The adoption of Christianity by no means entailed the utter failure of the techniques of ... They have long been preserved in Byzantium and the Mediterranean. However, the sin of Eve, the progenitor for many centuries, lay the burden on women, condemning the harsh asceticism which women's savvy yet learned to crawl.

With the adoption of Christianity ' in vogue ' are modesty and severity, praised as a major virtue in the epistles of St. Paul in the book of Isaiah. These sermons are anticipated for the mortification of passion that were played during the Middle Ages. Uncleanliness is elevated to a virtue, and the bans and curses contained in the teachings of the Fathers of the Church (III-V centuries. n. e. ) Contributed to the left in the past habit of washing, paints and ointments, and society arose a prejudice against the procedures associated with the washing of the body.

Priests, monks and nuns, the Church allows you to perform ablutions in only two cases: either by a natural necessity in the case of extreme need, or to cleanse before the adoption of the great mysteries. St. Radegunda ( 520-587 ) replaced the drinking water treatment bags of herbs, which the nuns at the Abbey of the Holy Cross, where she was abbess, ' strengthened in their armpits. in order to repel the smell of sweat '.

Impairment in cosmetics such as rouge and white lead, in the eyes of the public played a significant role hackneyed view, inherited from Greek philosophy and Roman satirists. According to their ideas embellishment person deprives a woman of beauty, blush and white are symbols of debauchery, they are toxic and lead to the appearance of sores on the body and a bad disease. But the medieval preachers were added to the list of negative features, and other godless quality, reinforcing his words with excerpts from the New Testament. Care to restore the beauty lay the burden of many centuries ' have been included in the list of acts on women, condemning the harsh condemned by the Church, which was trying to teach people, even in the daily work and chores. Beginning with Tertullian (III in n. e. ) And to Count Jacques de la Marche, a preacher who lived in the XIV century. Any attempt to embellish nature bestowed upon the body and face associated with the two sins: lust, and pride.

In the XIV century, Jacques de la Marche, the ruler of a small county, rouge to use allowed young girls of marriageable age, and women with disgusting illnesses, in order to hide them. Yet in his sermons, he argued that the fascination with the means to decorate the person is associated with lust and debauchery, and, therefore, is the seal that holds the contract for aiding the Prince of Darkness. In one instructive stories teachings, tells about the fate of a young girl, very Pēkšēns about their appearance. So, the day after any festival, where she shone at the feast, the devil appeared to her and told her: ' I am one whose command you are doing and whose plan you implement, you - my tool of proselytizing, and therefore should . According to Jacques de la Marche imaginary embroidery shows foolishness to that resorted to them, and are a source of sin. For ' to try to embellish themselves artificially, is a deception that leads to adultery '.
It was believed that a woman makes herself beautiful in order to deceive the naive bride. A man feared that in the light of candles in the bedroom finds ugly, capable, as they say, ' tie it firmly cords ' ( on the codpiece ), that is, its ugliness turned into impotent. The image of her husband, to whom marriage fraud palmed off with worthless goods, gave rise to thoughts, had by an economic basis - the loss of ability to bear children could lead to suppression of the genus.
Women's frivolity, in the opinion of preachers, can damage the art of icon painting, as compared with the images of saints painted woman looked blankly. Mirror, ' the gates of hell ', is a favorite ' weapon ' coquette. As an example, the Great Whore, which, according to Etienne de Bourbon, ' grows seven heads, like a dragon: for the day to night, for entertainment on the people, for religious festivals for foreigners '. mask. Frozen on the beautiful face, reflected in a mirror as the face of the devil, hiding the face, once created by God. On the day of Judgment will not know Christ, flirt and would refer it to hell, according to CB. Jerome.

It was believed that the use of potions to preserve the beauty leads to the true blasphemy, since creation of the distortion of the Lord. So the wicked invention of the dark forces - paint - makes a woman accomplice to the devil, because, according to Etienne de Bourbon (XII century. ), ' Flirt decided to do more like the devil than to Christ.

The preachers taught: ' Beauty - a fleeting phenomenon, and attempts to gloss over the future corpse in vain ' Old recipes potions were known in Western countries due to medical school of Salerno (XII in. ). Works devoted to cosmetics, selling all sorts of merchants. Women buy them themselves produced ointments. But there were also local recipes. So a medical scientist advocated the use of lead oxide, and the inhabitant of the Pyrenees jur favored ' homegrown ' means: paste of almonds mixed with honey, infusion of chamomile, and plantain.
Although anathema means betraying cosmetics churchmen made ​​available in water treatment, then, as is the case with rouge and white lead people to abandon them entirely failed, although they use them less frequently. However, in the era of the Crusades, after getting acquainted with the manners of the East, in Europe began to spread knowledge about how the guidance of beauty, and women once again began to diligently care for their people.

In the XIII and XIV centuries. were created by the great medical treatises: labor Messer Aldebrandina Siena ... During the same period, and include manuscripts, created by court. All works are instructions how to whiten skin, hair tint, mask skin blemishes, wrinkles are removed, that is approved by the canon of beauty, which is still fairly primitive record the painting.
In the Middle Ages was a young beauty, because it was thought that the age of 25 Oe exhausted motherhood is a woman ' was part of a wilderness, where there was no place of love ', and in another 10 years, turned into a powdered and rouged, or, in the words of Mother de la Halle, .

In contrast to the nymphet, that is, from a teenage girl, a woman of twenty-five years of age was considered ugly - the black as a raven- haired, tanned or sunburned face. This witch was the embodiment of sin and personified by the union with Satan. But thanks to the sorcery she possessed all the necessary qualities to inspire the stronger sex in hell: she had a slightly sloping shoulders, long hair, narrow hips, slim waist, round abdomen. These ' Amazon devil, ... Jerome, killing a woman face of Mary, Queen of Heaven.

A blond young beauty with curly hair, lush hair in the retracted, or plaited, resplendent beauty lily- white skin, and the whiteness of the evidence of its purity, chastity and angelic nature. Her cheeks dimpled cheeks burn exactly the same as redden her lips.
The eyebrows, the object of true worship in the Middle Ages, by all means should be blackened, curved arc and a very thin.

The bridge as it hangs over the neat straight nose, regular and thin. As far as the eye, ' bright and cheerful '! . with mandatory dimple in the middle ( ' bifurcated ', according to Guillaume de Lorrisa and Jean de Mena, the authors ' Roman de la Rose ') completes this perfect picture. Canons of the ideal body structure are vague, since the Middle Ages and the people only care about the form that was available to gaze. And yet the woman was supposed to be slim, with a slim waist and under her dress guessed hips, waist and elegantly curved round, bulging belly completed the picture. Tall, shaven foreheads - a mandatory attribute of the beauty of the time. The lady was subjected to painful hair removal procedure: the hair at the roots superimposed caustic mixture of orpiment and quicklime. Once the skin has been cleansed, on the forehead applied formulations designed to prevent the growth of hair, - the blood of bats and frogs, the juice of hemlock and ash, pre- soaked in vinegar. Hair beauty must necessarily be bright, blond or red, they were washed with a mixture of ash, egg whites and soap, then braided into plaits, podgadyvaya pads of horse hair, and then decorated with gold threads, or strings of pearls, and semi-transparent veil from top to throw.

Ladies encouraged to gain a thick head of hair to rub his head with powder, which included milled wings of bees and flies blister, nuts, and the ashes of burnt rod of needles.
And the ban was white and blush does not, for e cheat bypass all restrictions continued to paint the face. Misuse of white lead entailed a real tragedy. Beautiful lady quickly grew old and durnela: cracked, blackened skin under the influence of lead, bad teeth, bad breath - this is what was the portrait of an unhappy accomplice of Satan, worthy to be shown in a scene of the Apocalypse.

From heaven, godlike beauty turns to pain a sign of. Vanity, force women to resort to the white and rosy-cheeked, prematurely began to leave on their faces the traces of decomposition, without waiting for the reveal a face of death.

Author: D. Pak.
Source: ' An interesting paper. Mysteries of History '№ 18 2010.





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