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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... Spain 57. Map of France showing distribution of femmes aux serpents, hommes aux serpents and misers 58. Map of France showing distribution of female exhibitionists and male thornpullers 59. Map of France showing distribution of beakhead ...
... Spain 57. Map of France showing distribution of femmes aux serpents, hommes aux serpents and misers 58. Map of France showing distribution of female exhibitionists and male thornpullers 59. Map of France showing distribution of beakhead ...
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... Spain 23. Mouliherne: tress-pulling mermaid and centauress 24. Cashel, Cormac's Chapel: lion and centaur-sagittarius on Romanesque tympanum 25. Kilteel: Irish centaur and lion 26. La Plaisance-sur-Gartempe: ass playing a lyre 27. Mason ...
... Spain 23. Mouliherne: tress-pulling mermaid and centauress 24. Cashel, Cormac's Chapel: lion and centaur-sagittarius on Romanesque tympanum 25. Kilteel: Irish centaur and lion 26. La Plaisance-sur-Gartempe: ass playing a lyre 27. Mason ...
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... Spain, up a rutted track from a rough by-road, is the hamlet of Santa Marta del Cerro: a bar, a shop, a few houses, and a church. The church is old and battered, and dates mostly from the twelfth century, built in triumph after this ...
... Spain, up a rutted track from a rough by-road, is the hamlet of Santa Marta del Cerro: a bar, a shop, a few houses, and a church. The church is old and battered, and dates mostly from the twelfth century, built in triumph after this ...
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... Spain. But it is not only in Spain that one finds them. Crossing the Pyrenees into south-west France one encounters them again, a great profusion of them, Champagnolles (Charente Maritime) is perhaps second only to Cervatos. The Poitou ...
... Spain. But it is not only in Spain that one finds them. Crossing the Pyrenees into south-west France one encounters them again, a great profusion of them, Champagnolles (Charente Maritime) is perhaps second only to Cervatos. The Poitou ...
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... Spain, is the British 'sheela-na-gig', one of the few remaining 'obscene' figures in our islands (Plate 3 ). It is a good starting point in our study of how it came to pass that lewd carvings were placed on or in Christian churches ...
... Spain, is the British 'sheela-na-gig', one of the few remaining 'obscene' figures in our islands (Plate 3 ). It is a good starting point in our study of how it came to pass that lewd carvings were placed on or in Christian churches ...
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 |
Common terms and phrases
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