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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... century were 'sold' rather as fitted kitchens or houses are today: for so much money you would get so big a building and so much carving. Every sculpted capital and corbel employed a man's time and skill and therefore cost so much – and ...
... century were 'sold' rather as fitted kitchens or houses are today: for so much money you would get so big a building and so much carving. Every sculpted capital and corbel employed a man's time and skill and therefore cost so much – and ...
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... arrestingly provocative. Then. Between these two churches is Frómista, with its 315 corbels. During the nineteenth-century restorations some corbels were withdrawn as being too Fig. 2b (g) Cloghan Castle, Type III; (h) Llandrindod, Type.
... arrestingly provocative. Then. Between these two churches is Frómista, with its 315 corbels. During the nineteenth-century restorations some corbels were withdrawn as being too Fig. 2b (g) Cloghan Castle, Type III; (h) Llandrindod, Type.
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... century, a vicar of Kilpeck ordered the defacing of a number of corbels which upset his sensibilities. One escaped destruction, the well-known 'sheela-na-gig'. Of the destroyed carvings, enough detail remains for a reconstruction of the ...
... century, a vicar of Kilpeck ordered the defacing of a number of corbels which upset his sensibilities. One escaped destruction, the well-known 'sheela-na-gig'. Of the destroyed carvings, enough detail remains for a reconstruction of the ...
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... century in Wales and the granite-bearing areas of Normandy, for houses there were still being 'protected' with phallic emblems, carved on stairposts and fireplaces. The Greeks and Romans made much use of such prophylactic symbols, and ...
... century in Wales and the granite-bearing areas of Normandy, for houses there were still being 'protected' with phallic emblems, carved on stairposts and fireplaces. The Greeks and Romans made much use of such prophylactic symbols, and ...
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... century Ireland. The attempts of philologists and historians to trace the etymology of sheela-na-gig in its many Irish and English spellings are admirably reviewed in the first long book to be written on the subject of these carvings ...
... century Ireland. The attempts of philologists and historians to trace the etymology of sheela-na-gig in its many Irish and English spellings are admirably reviewed in the first long book to be written on the subject of these carvings ...
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