As far as I know, women burned for heresy in England in the 15th-early 16th
centuries were not shaved. But shaving was a fairly common punishment for
prostitutes and bawds (clearly a shaming ritual in that case). See on the
latter Ruth Mazo Karras, *Common Women*, 15.
Shannon McSheffrey
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