Images of Lust: Sexual Carvings on Medieval ChurchesRoutledge, 2013 M04 15 - 168 pages Sexually explicit sculptures may be found on a number of medieval churches in France and Spain. This fascinating study examines the origins and purposes of these sculptures, viewing them not as magical fertility symbols, nor even as idols of ancient pre-Christian religions, but as serious works that dealt with the sexual customs and salvation of medieval folk, and thus gave support to the Church's moral teachings. |
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... Romanesque background 4. The entertainers 5. Mermaids, centaurs and other hybrid monsters 6. La femme aux serpents, l'homme aux serpents and l'avare 7. Disgust for the flesh 8. More priapic figures 9. Rude gestures and ruder postures 10 ...
... Romanesque background 4. The entertainers 5. Mermaids, centaurs and other hybrid monsters 6. La femme aux serpents, l'homme aux serpents and l'avare 7. Disgust for the flesh 8. More priapic figures 9. Rude gestures and ruder postures 10 ...
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... Romanesque 'frieze' 12. The Torments of the Damned below a vinescroll at Gerona 13. Vouvant: men in torment 14. Rath Blathmaic: Irish Romanesque window-sill 15. Late eleventh-century capital in Canterbury crypt 16. Lugo Cathedral ...
... Romanesque 'frieze' 12. The Torments of the Damned below a vinescroll at Gerona 13. Vouvant: men in torment 14. Rath Blathmaic: Irish Romanesque window-sill 15. Late eleventh-century capital in Canterbury crypt 16. Lugo Cathedral ...
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... Romanesque scholars. Few villagers notice the carvings on the corbels high above them and, if they do, they probably do not understand them, for they are a curious assortment: a man pulling his beard; a human-headed snake; an acrobat ...
... Romanesque scholars. Few villagers notice the carvings on the corbels high above them and, if they do, they probably do not understand them, for they are a curious assortment: a man pulling his beard; a human-headed snake; an acrobat ...
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... Romanesque carvings, regardless of which other distant origins may have played a part in their make-up. We believe that they dealt with matters of great moment – the sexual mores and salvation of medieval folk – and that the importance ...
... Romanesque carvings, regardless of which other distant origins may have played a part in their make-up. We believe that they dealt with matters of great moment – the sexual mores and salvation of medieval folk – and that the importance ...
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... Romanesque motifs, from Classical prototypes at a date not earlier, so far as we have been able to ascertain, than the eleventh century, and that their floruit was during the twelfth century; that they are Christian carvings, part of an ...
... Romanesque motifs, from Classical prototypes at a date not earlier, so far as we have been able to ascertain, than the eleventh century, and that their floruit was during the twelfth century; that they are Christian carvings, part of an ...
Contents
The Romanesque background | |
The entertainers | |
Mermaids centaurs and other hybrid monsters | |
La femme aux serpents lhomme aux serpents and lavare | |
Disgust for the flesh | |
Rude gestures and ruder postures | |
More female exhibitionists | |
The distribution of sexual carvings | |
Exhibitionists and Folklore | |
Epilogue | |
Bibliography | |
Gazetteer | |
Index | |
Other editions - View all
Images of Lust: Sexual Carvings on Medieval Churches Anthony Weir,James Jerman No preview available - 2016 |
Images of Lust: Sexual Carvings on Medieval Churches Anthony Weir,James Jerman No preview available - 1986 |
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acrobats Andersen apes apotropaic Archingeay archivolt Audignon Aulnay Auvergne Baubo beakhead beard beasts Beatus bite Blesle Brioude Calvados capital carvings Castle Cathedral centaur Cervatos Champagnolles Chanteuges Charente Charente-Maritime Châteaumeillant Christian churches Classical Compostela concupiscence corbel table corbels couples Courpière decoration demons devil evil exhibitionists feet-to-ears female exhibitionist femme aux serpents figures foliage-spewers France Frómista genitals Gironde Givrezac hair hand head Hell Herefordshire Ireland Irish Italy ithyphallic Jerman Kilpeck Lavaudieu London lust Luxuria male exhibitionist masks masons medieval megaphallic male mermaids miser Moissac monks monster motifs mouth-puller Museum Navarra Offaly pair Palencia penis phallic phalloi Photo pilgrimage pilgrims Plate Poitiers pulling Puy-de-D6me Pyrénées-Atlantiques Roman Romanesque art Saint Saint-Jouin-de-Marnes Saint-Palais Saint-Savinien Saintonge San Quirce Santiago scene sculpture sexual exhibitionists sheela sheela-na-gig Shobdon showing Shropshire snakes Spain splay-legged squatting stone suckling symbolism thorn-puller Tipperary toads tongue tongue-puller Tugford twelfth century tympanum Vézelay Vienne Vouvant vulva woman women Zodiaque