2/2 And while you are at it, you may as well show your wealth in a veil and make it fancier, play with its forms and test the limits of the mandate.
But it was primarily understood as a symbolic piece of clothing, worn to express a particular order in society.
This citation from Heinrich von Langenstein, quite an influencial theologian in the 14th century (and also philosopher and mathematician) teaching at the Universities in Paris and Vienna, lays it out pretty bluntly.
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