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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... sculptures of the British Isles' (Andersen 1977). It gave a catalogue of the then known figures together with a ... sculptures. Because our study also takes into account male sexual sculptures, which in France and Spain are more numerous ...
... sculptures of the British Isles' (Andersen 1977). It gave a catalogue of the then known figures together with a ... sculptures. Because our study also takes into account male sexual sculptures, which in France and Spain are more numerous ...
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... sculptures are sexual and draw attention to the genitalia by a flagrant display often highlighted by the play of the hands; but an equally distinctive feature of the sheela is its repellent ugliness: huge disproportionate head, staring ...
... sculptures are sexual and draw attention to the genitalia by a flagrant display often highlighted by the play of the hands; but an equally distinctive feature of the sheela is its repellent ugliness: huge disproportionate head, staring ...
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... sculptures of their period. As it is, we have had to wait over a century and a half for work like Andersen's. Our own ... sculpture of a well-defined area of western France and northern Spain; that they reached the British Isles by a ...
... sculptures of their period. As it is, we have had to wait over a century and a half for work like Andersen's. Our own ... sculpture of a well-defined area of western France and northern Spain; that they reached the British Isles by a ...
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... and there is so much to study that the sexual sculptures tend to be disregarded as mere curiosities. In the British Isles we can only get a glimpse of the former richness of Romanesque work in the fragments which remain.
... and there is so much to study that the sexual sculptures tend to be disregarded as mere curiosities. In the British Isles we can only get a glimpse of the former richness of Romanesque work in the fragments which remain.
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... sculpture of a young Roman athlete bending down to pull a thorn from the sole of his foot is naturalistic and microphallic; the Romanesque version of Spinario is grossly megaphallic (Plate 8). Worse still, the heated imagination of the ...
... sculpture of a young Roman athlete bending down to pull a thorn from the sole of his foot is naturalistic and microphallic; the Romanesque version of Spinario is grossly megaphallic (Plate 8). Worse still, the heated imagination of the ...
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 |
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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