body-piercngs-msg - 11/27/05 Body piercings during period, other than for ear rings. NOTE: See also the files: ear-rings-msg, finger-rings-msg, jewelry-msg, beads-msg, jewlry-storag-msg, brooches-lnks, lapidary-msg, A-Lapidary-art, tattoos-msg. ************************************************************************ NOTICE - This file is a collection of various messages having a common theme that I have collected from my reading of the various computer networks. Some messages date back to 1989, some may be as recent as yesterday. This file is part of a collection of files called Stefan's Florilegium. These files are available on the Internet at: http://www.florilegium.org I have done a limited amount of editing. Messages having to do with separate topics were sometimes split into different files and sometimes extraneous information was removed. For instance, the message IDs were removed to save space and remove clutter. The comments made in these messages are not necessarily my viewpoints. I make no claims as to the accuracy of the information given by the individual authors. Please respect the time and efforts of those who have written these messages. The copyright status of these messages is unclear at this time. If information is published from these messages, please give credit to the originator(s). Thank you, Mark S. Harris AKA: THLord Stefan li Rous Stefan at florilegium.org ************************************************************************ Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 09:56:38 -0400 From: Woodrow Hill Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] body piercings To: Cooks within the SCA On 8/29/05, Stefan li Rous wrote: > Does anyone know if body piercings were practiced by any of the > cultures we study? I know that the Church frowned upon tattoos, so > they were not very common, and I imagine that the Church would say > the same thing about piercings. I do have some info on ear rings for > both males and females in period, but I'm thinking of other parts of > the body. The Dervish sects apparently did so: (300k woodcut period image on page, but NOT work-safe) http://www.livejournal.com/users/asim/74118.html And yes, this is the only example I have. Just ignore the rest of my blathering, but there's some interesting discussion in the comments about Indian piercings, as well. > Stefan ---asim Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 15:17:56 -0700 From: lilinah at earthlink.net Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] body piercings To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org On 8/29/05, Stefan li Rous wrote: > Does anyone know if body piercings were practiced by any of the > cultures we study? I know that the Church frowned upon tattoos, so > they were not very common, and I imagine that the Church would say > the same thing about piercings. I do have some info on ear rings for > both males and females in period, but I'm thinking of other parts of > the body. Like Asim, i've mostly seen piercings in period - other than in ears - in the Ottoman Empire. There are pictures in the Codex Vindobonensis 8626 (circa 1590), in the Austrian National Library, believed to have been painted between 1586 and 1591 by an unknown south German artist in the suite of Bartolemeo di Pezzana, ambassador of the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolph II to the Sultan. There are many pictures from this book at http://home.fuse.net/ihorowit/Ottomania.htm Some are perfectly "safe", others are very clearly NOT WORK OR CHILD SAFE, so view at your own risk. -- Urtatim (that's err-tah-TEEM) the persona formerly known as Anahita Edited by Mark S. Harris body-piercngs-msg Page 2 of 3