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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... Mason at work under the eye of a bishop, Gerona 28. Saint-Jouin-de-Marnes: façade figure 29. Deyrançon: woman attacked by snakes and monsters 30. Huesca: cloister capital with femme aux serpents 31. Champagne: femme aux serpents 32 ...
... Mason at work under the eye of a bishop, Gerona 28. Saint-Jouin-de-Marnes: façade figure 29. Deyrançon: woman attacked by snakes and monsters 30. Huesca: cloister capital with femme aux serpents 31. Champagne: femme aux serpents 32 ...
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... masons out of sheer fun and devilment, and we may be inclined to dismiss them as nothing more than creations of whim and whimsy. But sculptors then, as workers now, did not carve what they were not commissioned to do, nor what they were ...
... masons out of sheer fun and devilment, and we may be inclined to dismiss them as nothing more than creations of whim and whimsy. But sculptors then, as workers now, did not carve what they were not commissioned to do, nor what they were ...
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... masons from exercising their skill upon them). Some seem to be simple, ornamental designs of knotwork, or foliage, or grimacing masks; yet others appear to be merely fantastic creations, whose message may be irretrievably lost. Those ...
... masons from exercising their skill upon them). Some seem to be simple, ornamental designs of knotwork, or foliage, or grimacing masks; yet others appear to be merely fantastic creations, whose message may be irretrievably lost. Those ...
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... masons did not consider these images to be obscene. Crude, vulgar, not without satirical or sardonic humour, they ... mason's virtuosity or humour, but we hope to show that the great majority once formed part of a planned artistic ...
... masons did not consider these images to be obscene. Crude, vulgar, not without satirical or sardonic humour, they ... mason's virtuosity or humour, but we hope to show that the great majority once formed part of a planned artistic ...
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... mason would have been allowed to perpetrate, or been paid for, work of this kind in so exposed a position at the entrance to a Christian edifice, unless his work had been done with the connivance or direction of his patrons (see Plate ...
... mason would have been allowed to perpetrate, or been paid for, work of this kind in so exposed a position at the entrance to a Christian edifice, unless his work had been done with the connivance or direction of his patrons (see Plate ...
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