Early Christians: The paintings in the ___ permit the belief that the early Christians simply followed the fashion of their time.
The short hair of the men and the ___ of the women were, towards the end of the 2nd century, curled, and arranged in tiers; women's hair was twined about the head over the brow.
Mosaics and ivories portray emperors, bishops, priests and the faithful wearing the hair of a medium length, cut squarely across the ___.
The hair of patriarchs and bishops was of medium length and was surmounted by a closed crown or a double ___.
In the Middle Ages, according to ____'s testimony, the monks were bearded.
The Vita ____ states that certain persons considered it meritorious to cut hair each year at Easter.
The Statuta antiqua ____ (can. xliv) forbade clerics and monks to allow hair or beard to grow.
A synod held by ____ in 456 prescribed that clerics should dress their hair in the manner of the Roman clerics; those who allowed their hair to grow were expelled.
The Council of ___ (506) authorized the archdeacon to employ force in cutting the hair of recalcitrants.
The Council of Braga (572) ordained that the hair should be short, and the ___ exposed.
The Fourth Council of Toledo (633) denounced the lectors in Galicia who wore a small ___ and allowed the hair to grow immoderately.
Two Councils of ___ (721 and 743) anathematized those who neglected the regulations in the matter of hair.
Under Louis the Débonnaire and Charles the Bald the hair was cut on the ____ and the back of the head.
In Early Modern times, the clergy followed with a sort of timidity the fashion of the __, but, except prelates and court chaplains, they refrained from the over-luxurious models.
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