Renaissance Beauty: Snails, Cat Poo & Fatal Make-Up

Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society

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Society, Sex, Scandal, Education, History

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Why did Renaissance women say the Lord's prayer while removing pubic hair?

If you're like us you definitely want to know the answer to this, and so much more about beauty culture during the Italian Renaissance between the 15th and 17th centuries.

Joining Kate today is Professor Jill Burke, author of How to be a Renaissance Woman: The Untold History of Beauty and Female Creativity, to help us find out if beauty culture was oppressive to women, or empowering.

Edited: Tom Delargy. Producer: Stuart Beckwith. Senior Producer: Charlotte Long.

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0:00.0	Hello I'm Jamie Lange and I'm Sophie Haboo and we have been married for a year.
0:05.0	One whole year.
0:06.0	Join us as we navigate married life here wild stories from our listeners and meet some of our
0:11.9	favorite celebrity couples.
0:13.2	That's right each week we dive into the world of Neely Ware Bliss.
0:17.4	Is that what it is, Bliss?
0:19.4	Jamie just pretend that we're Neely Wets.
0:21.2	One year down and a lifetime to go.
0:24.1	Love you, honey.
0:25.3	Listen every Monday, just search Neely Weeds wherever you get your podcasts. Hello my lovely betwixters it's me Kate Lister I am here to whitter into your
0:38.3	lug holes one more time but before we can get on with it I have to tell you
0:41.9	this is an adult podcast spoken by adults
0:43.8	to other adults about adulty things in an adulty way, and you should be an adult too.
0:48.1	And if you can't take all of those boxes, then off with you.
0:50.8	Just put down whatever you think you're doing and be off with you. Go put the archers on
0:54.0	as something much more wholesome. Don't be listening to Renaissance Venice. You join me just as I am getting
1:10.9	ready, putting my perfume on, putting a bit of slap on.
1:14.0	And while I'm doing that, let me tell you about some of the scandalous rumors of crimes that have been circulating lately.
1:21.0	Did you know a network of working-class women have been using the poisons found in
1:25.9	makeup and bumping off their husbands with it? Well that's what I've heard anyway.
1:31.1	Honestly, if looks could kill. And there is a lot of makeup advice going round
1:36.1	at the moment, not all of it about how to kill your husband, but there are some rather fabulous
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