Images of Lust: Sexual Carvings on Medieval ChurchesB.T. Batsford, 1986 - 166 pages |
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Page 107
... looks forward to the manu- script masks of the tenth to twelfth centuries , when these take on a demonic look . We have the documentary evidence of Rabanus Maurus , Abbot of Fulda , an influen- tial theologian of the eighth century ...
... looks forward to the manu- script masks of the tenth to twelfth centuries , when these take on a demonic look . We have the documentary evidence of Rabanus Maurus , Abbot of Fulda , an influen- tial theologian of the eighth century ...
Page 125
... look like the males of Champagnolles , which look like the males of Barahona ; coupling couples , clutching pairs , ' wrestlers ' in Spain , Saintonge , Kilpeck and Shobdon , all have affinities ; la femme aux serpents in France is the ...
... look like the males of Champagnolles , which look like the males of Barahona ; coupling couples , clutching pairs , ' wrestlers ' in Spain , Saintonge , Kilpeck and Shobdon , all have affinities ; la femme aux serpents in France is the ...
Page 149
... look like ' wood spirits , tree sprites ' . Some protrude a tongue , others sprout leaves and tendrils . They may symbolise renaissance - life growing out of dead matter but equally they may not , for Kathleen Basford has com- mented on ...
... look like ' wood spirits , tree sprites ' . Some protrude a tongue , others sprout leaves and tendrils . They may symbolise renaissance - life growing out of dead matter but equally they may not , for Kathleen Basford has com- mented on ...
Contents
Introduction | 7 |
Ugly as sin | 23 |
The Romanesque background | 31 |
Copyright | |
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Abbey acrobat Andersen apes apotropaic Archingeay archivolt Audignon Aulnay 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 Coruña couple Courpière decoration demon devil esque evil exhibiting exhibitionist façade feet-to-ears female exhibitionist femme aux serpents figures foliage-spewer France Frómista genitals Gironde Givrezac hair hand head Hell Herefordshire Ireland Irish Italy ithyphallic Kilpeck Lavaudieu legs León lust Luxuria male exhibitionist masks masons medieval megaphallic male mermaids miser Moissac monks monster motifs mouth-puller Museum Navarra Offaly pair penis phallic phalloi Photo pilgrimage pilgrims Plate Poitiers pulling Puy-de-Dôme Pyrénées-Atlantiques Roman Romanesque art Saint Saint-Palais Saintonge San Quirce Santiago scene sculptures sexual sheela sheela-na-gigs shows snakes Spain splay-legged squatting stone suckling symbolism Terra thorn-puller tion Tipperary toads tongue tongue-puller Tugford twelfth century tympanum Vézelay Vienne Vouvant vulva woman women