Images of Lust: Sexual Carvings on Medieval ChurchesB.T. Batsford, 1986 - 166 pages |
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... hair - styles ( like the Etruscan bronze and the Gotland slab ) . The symbolism of woman's hair goes back into antiquity and we shall return to this subject later . Most later Irish exhibitionists have long hair , and the Ballinderry ...
... hair - styles ( like the Etruscan bronze and the Gotland slab ) . The symbolism of woman's hair goes back into antiquity and we shall return to this subject later . Most later Irish exhibitionists have long hair , and the Ballinderry ...
Page 73
... hair furnishes the clue . Long hair , as we have seen in our study of mermaids , is a sexual symbol ( see Leach 1958 ) ; the tonsure undergone by nuns and monks marks their return to a pre - pubertal state of virginity and purity . In ...
... hair furnishes the clue . Long hair , as we have seen in our study of mermaids , is a sexual symbol ( see Leach 1958 ) ; the tonsure undergone by nuns and monks marks their return to a pre - pubertal state of virginity and purity . In ...
Page 74
... hair , for thereby she deprived him of his strength and virility - presumably a symbolic reference to the sapping of his strength by more feminine wiles . Lastly , hair may also express the aggressive- ness of sexuality . The Gorgon's ...
... hair , for thereby she deprived him of his strength and virility - presumably a symbolic reference to the sapping of his strength by more feminine wiles . Lastly , hair may also express the aggressive- ness of sexuality . The Gorgon's ...
Contents
Introduction | 7 |
Ugly as sin | 23 |
The Romanesque background | 31 |
Copyright | |
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