Romanesque art
Fashion

In England and France, the Romanesque period saw the rise of pigaches, "scorpion-tail" or "ram's-horn" shoes much assailed by the clergy at the time. Orderic Vitalis in particular blamed them for the supposed rise in sodomy and homosexuality of the era. The shoes are now principally remembered as precursors to the much more extravagant poulaines that became popular following the Black Death.
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