The Pardoner (Lines 693-709). According to medieval physiognomy, sparse yellow hair, soft and long, was an indication of cunning and deceptiveness. Hare eyes could mean gluttony and drunkeenness. A goat-voice and beardless face indicate a lack of manhood and treachery.
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Face reading history. Practice of Physiognomy, Phrenology, Personology. ... While the earlier classical physiognomy was chiefly descriptive, the later medieval studies particularly developed the predictive and astrological side, their treatises often digressing into prophetic folklore and magic.
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Astrology was an integral part of medieval medicine. Talismanic images were made at a precise astronomical hour to insure their potency. For more on medieval astrology, see Eliki and Benson. ... In medieval physiognomy, gap-teeth denoted boldness and sensuality.
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Physiognomy is the interpretation of outward appearance, especially the features of the face, to discover a person's predominant temper and character. ... Physiognomy has also been used as a kind of divination and is often associated with astrology. The faces depicted to the right are from Barthélemy Coclès...
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In ancient Greece, Aristotle wrote extensively on physiognomy categorizing his findings into six chapters that included physical characteristics of face, body & voice. The Classical scholars, such as Homer and Hippocrates, wrote of face reading as an ancient method of practical philosophy.
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Watch the The Medieval Foundation of Renaissance physiognomy Podcast Episode from Diffusion des savoirs ENS Paris [audio] on mefeedia.com ... 2. The significance of the continuing interest in medieval physiognomy: notably the popularity of Michael Scot as attested by the repeated reprinting of his physiognomy book.
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Watch the The Medieval Foundation of Renaissance physiognomy Video from Diffusion des savoirs ENS Paris [video] on Mefeedia.com ... 2. The significance of the continuing interest in medieval physiognomy: notably the popularity of Michael Scot as attested by the repeated reprinting of his physiognomy book.
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Pay attention to physical descriptions (in medieval times, physiognomy was believed to be revealing of character -- see online information on the four humors). What do the descriptions reveal about the pilgrims' characters?
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PHYSIOGNOMY, the English form of the middle Greek 4uo-coyvwµia, a contraction of the classical ciuotoyvcoµovia (from qSvQCs, nature, and yvc'oµwv, an interpreter), (i) a term which denotes a supposed science for the " discovery of the disposition of the mind by the lineaments of the body " (Bacon);
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