Appearance and Ideology: Creating Distinctions between Clerics and LayPersons in Early Medieval Gaul
Appearance and Ideology: Creating Distinctions between Clerics and LayPersons in Early Medieval Gaul
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外表与意识形态：中世纪早期高卢神职人员与普通民众之间的区别
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2002
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Bonnie Effros
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Bonnie Effros
服装和其他种类的身体装饰是个人和群体表达其身份的重要手段。服装、发型和相关财产的展示可能揭示一个人与他或她同时代人的关系的性质，无论是关于宗教信仰、性别、年龄、种族归属、地位还是亲属群体成员。这些习俗具有特定的文化特征，但可能通过贸易、政治或军事接触或模仿强大或古老模式的愿望与更遥远的社区共享某些特征。因此，有关个人外表的习俗往往有助于加强社会秩序，正如违反这些习俗可能会挑战现状一样。因此，区分特定社会群体的特定服饰种类的存在可能表明了社会中存在的重要等级划分，而不仅仅与法律的等级或社会地位有关。请记住，规定个人外表的法律维护了一个监管机构的理想，而不是反映那个王国或宗教社区实际发生的事情，尽管如此，服装的证据仍然可以让学者了解历史和当代社区中表达差异的细微差别是如何被他们的领导人所重视的。
Clothing and other sorts of bodily adornment represent an important means by which individuals and groups express their identity. Garments, hairstyles, and the display of related possessions may reveal the nature of a person’s relationship to his or her contemporaries, whether with respect to religious belief, gender, age, ethnic affiliation, status, or membership in a kin group. These practices are culturally specific, but may share certain features with more distant communities through trade, political or military contact, or the desire to emulate powerful or ancient models. Mores regarding personal appearance thus often serve to reinforce the social order, just as their violation may challenge the status quo. As a consequence, the existence of specific sorts of dress to distinguish particular social groups may indicate important hierarchical divisions existing within a society that are not tied solely to legal rank or social status. Keeping in mind that laws prescribing personal appearance preserve the ideals of a regulating body rather than reflect what actually occurred in that kingdom or religious community, evidence for clothing nonetheless allows scholars to understand how nuances in the expression of difference in historical and contemporary communities are valued by their leaders.