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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... Woman with skull at Santiago de Compostela; man and woman with snakes at the Puerta de la Platerías 22. Terra at Limburg; font detail at Vester Egede; tympanum fragment in Viborg Museum, and long-tressed fragment from Urcel 23. Femme ...
... Woman with skull at Santiago de Compostela; man and woman with snakes at the Puerta de la Platerías 22. Terra at Limburg; font detail at Vester Egede; tympanum fragment in Viborg Museum, and long-tressed fragment from Urcel 23. Femme ...
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... woman attacked by snakes and monsters 30. Huesca: cloister capital with femme aux serpents 31. Champagne: femme aux serpents 32. Saint-Palais: woman suckling toads while snakes bite her ears 33. Toulouse Museum: from Oô, an explicit ...
... woman attacked by snakes and monsters 30. Huesca: cloister capital with femme aux serpents 31. Champagne: femme aux serpents 32. Saint-Palais: woman suckling toads while snakes bite her ears 33. Toulouse Museum: from Oô, an explicit ...
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... woman with large bared breasts and her hands clasped on her belly; another squatting figure of indeterminate sex, and two squatting figures exhibiting male and female genitals agonisedly (Fig. 1). To twentieth-century eyes these seem ...
... woman with large bared breasts and her hands clasped on her belly; another squatting figure of indeterminate sex, and two squatting figures exhibiting male and female genitals agonisedly (Fig. 1). To twentieth-century eyes these seem ...
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... Woman, the cause of the Fall of Man. We shall look at some of the writing of influential theologians, whose work was the constant study of the monks, and whose burden was that Woman is unclean, that whoever touches her is defiled. The ...
... Woman, the cause of the Fall of Man. We shall look at some of the writing of influential theologians, whose work was the constant study of the monks, and whose burden was that Woman is unclean, that whoever touches her is defiled. The ...
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... woman. Her right hand passes under her buttock so that she can insert her fingers into a slit-like vulva. Her gesture, even to our liberated gaze, is brazen. What makes the picture even more astounding is the bearded ithyphallic male ...
... woman. Her right hand passes under her buttock so that she can insert her fingers into a slit-like vulva. Her gesture, even to our liberated gaze, is brazen. What makes the picture even more astounding is the bearded ithyphallic male ...
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