On Thu, 10 May 2007, E House wrote:
My thought (on the February image) was always that it was due to lice or the
like...
-E House
Actually I think it's just artistic conventions--they just didn't draw the
pubic hair. You see this in the depictions of the human body in 12th and
13th century art as well. I don't really pay attention anymore to European
art past the 14th century so I can't speak to that, but I can say that I
haven't seen body hair of any sort on any depictions of the nude human
body before 1400.
I have never seen any mention of shaving body hair during that time period
either, but that only means I've never seen any, not that such doesn't
exist. There might be a mention in medical treatises but I haven't done
much study of medieval medical practice past humoral theory.
Jen
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