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Hair, Nails, Earlobes: Why Believers Plundered the Dead in the Middle Ages
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In the Middle Ages, the bodies of some deceased people were regarded as a treasure – and believers secured their hair and nails. A group of people was particularly affected by the mortuary. Before them lies on 17 November in the year of the Lord 1231 Elisabeth of Thuringia, raised in a chapel of the Francishospital in Marburg. People tear cloth shreds from the clothes of the dead, cut off hair, fingernails, earlobes, even the nipples. Everyone w…
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