Images of Lust: Sexual Carvings on Medieval ChurchesB.T. Batsford, 1986 - 166 pages |
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Page 65
... face was pale from fasting , and my mind was hot with desire in a body as cold as ice . Though my flesh , before its tenant , was already as good as dead , the fires of passion kept boiling within me . The monks of Europe , seven ...
... face was pale from fasting , and my mind was hot with desire in a body as cold as ice . Though my flesh , before its tenant , was already as good as dead , the fires of passion kept boiling within me . The monks of Europe , seven ...
Page 103
... face of a capital , and on another face is a figure whose tongue is attacked by a snake . On the left arcade of the Angoulême façade is a horrific scene of a wretched , ragged sinner on a flying monster , being dragged off to Hell by a ...
... face of a capital , and on another face is a figure whose tongue is attacked by a snake . On the left arcade of the Angoulême façade is a horrific scene of a wretched , ragged sinner on a flying monster , being dragged off to Hell by a ...
Page 152
... face appears on one of these monstrous beings it seems invested with bestiality . Surely all this fauna attached to a church door cannot be without a moral purpose ? ) It is to the question which ends this quotation that we have ...
... face appears on one of these monstrous beings it seems invested with bestiality . Surely all this fauna attached to a church door cannot be without a moral purpose ? ) It is to the question which ends this quotation that we have ...
Contents
Introduction | 7 |
Ugly as sin | 23 |
The Romanesque background | 31 |
Copyright | |
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