Images of Lust: Sexual Carvings on Medieval ChurchesB.T. Batsford, 1986 - 166 pages |
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Page 46
... plays evolved , and music and dance had a role to play , music in particular being a necessary part of the ritual ... played its part , for the gleemen , scops , minstrels and entertainers of all kinds received the appro- bation and ...
... plays evolved , and music and dance had a role to play , music in particular being a necessary part of the ritual ... played its part , for the gleemen , scops , minstrels and entertainers of all kinds received the appro- bation and ...
Page 47
... plays , drinking bouts , ram- raisings , May games , and the Feast of Fools all incurred odium . The May festival ... played in such harmless - but to a Christian utterly blasphemous - merrymaking . It has been suggested ( Montejo ...
... plays , drinking bouts , ram- raisings , May games , and the Feast of Fools all incurred odium . The May festival ... played in such harmless - but to a Christian utterly blasphemous - merrymaking . It has been suggested ( Montejo ...
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... played a possible part in the cre- ation of the female exhibitionist carvings . In our last chapter we shall refer to a description of folkloric practices in the Abruzzi area of Italy by G. Pansa . In this account he has something to ...
... played a possible part in the cre- ation of the female exhibitionist carvings . In our last chapter we shall refer to a description of folkloric practices in the Abruzzi area of Italy by G. Pansa . In this account he has something to ...
Contents
Introduction | 7 |
Ugly as sin | 23 |
The Romanesque background | 31 |
Copyright | |
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