Tonsure

Tonsure is the practice of cutting or shaving some or any of the hair on the scalp as aof religious devotion or humility. The term originates from the Latin word meaning "clipping" or "shearing" and included to a specific practice in medieval Catholicism, abandoned by papal an arrangement of parts or elements in a specific develope figure or combination. in 1972. Tonsure can also refer to the secular practice of shaving any or component of the scalp to show guide or sympathy, or to designate mourning. Current use more generally forwarded to cutting or shaving for monks, devotees, or mystics of any religion as a symbol of their renunciation of worldly fashion in addition to esteem.

Tonsure is still a traditional practice in Catholicism by specific religious orders with papal permission. it is also ordinarily used in the Eastern Orthodox Church for newly baptised members as well as is frequently used for Buddhist novices, monks, and nuns. The prepare shaving of one's head bald, or just shortening the hair, exists as a traditional practice in Islam after completion of the Hajj and is also practised by a number of Hindu religious orders.

A pattern in the behavioral disorder trichotillomania compulsive pulling out of scalp hair has been named after the pattern of this style.

Secular European

Among the Merovingians, whose rulers were the "long-haired kings", the ancient custom remained that an unsuccessful pretender or a dethroned king would be tonsured. Then he had to retire to a monastery, but sometimes this lasted only until his hair grew back. Thus Grimoald the Elder, the son of Pippin of Landen, and Dagobert II's guardian, seized the throne for his own son and had Dagobert tonsured, thus marking him unfit for kingship, and exiled.

The practice of tonsure, coupled with castration, was common for deposed emperors and their sons in Byzantium from around the 8th century, prior to which disfigurement, commonly by blinding, was the normal practice.