Sheela-na-gigs: Unravelling an EnigmaRoutledge, 15 օգս, 2005 թ. - 232 էջ Here Barbara Freitag examines all the literature on the subject since their discovery 160 years ago, highlighting the inconsistencies of the various interpretations in regard to origin, function and name. By considering the Sheela-na-gigs in their medieval social context, she suggests that they were folk deities with particular responsibility for assistance in childbirth. This fascinating survey sheds new light on a controversial phenomenon, and also contains a complete catalogue of all known Sheela-na-gigs, including hitherto unrecorded or unpublished figures.
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... Guest in the 1930s devised a taxonomy that was based on the different postures. Guest adopted the following division.
... Guest in the 1930s devised a taxonomy that was based on the different postures. Guest adopted the following division.
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... Guest's various categories across the whole country, with no pockets or clusters of favourite types emerging anywhere. And when A.L.Hutchinson employed her division on British Sheelas in the late 1960s, he found a very similar ...
... Guest's various categories across the whole country, with no pockets or clusters of favourite types emerging anywhere. And when A.L.Hutchinson employed her division on British Sheelas in the late 1960s, he found a very similar ...
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... Guest's typology ought to be qualified because two out of Guest's three main categories are indeed based on the position of the arms, and the different leg positions are only taken into account as subdivisions within the first category ...
... Guest's typology ought to be qualified because two out of Guest's three main categories are indeed based on the position of the arms, and the different leg positions are only taken into account as subdivisions within the first category ...
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... Guest also pioneered the investigation into the dating of the Sheela-na-gig, in that she endeavoured to overcome the inherent difficulties by associating those figures still in situ with the architectural setting and ornaments of the ...
... Guest also pioneered the investigation into the dating of the Sheela-na-gig, in that she endeavoured to overcome the inherent difficulties by associating those figures still in situ with the architectural setting and ornaments of the ...
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... Guest's and Jerman's proposals with regard to distribution range and the general dating of Sheela-na-gigs have demonstrated is that none of the criteria collated to date has yielded any definite or significant results. But amidst all ...
... Guest's and Jerman's proposals with regard to distribution range and the general dating of Sheela-na-gigs have demonstrated is that none of the criteria collated to date has yielded any definite or significant results. But amidst all ...
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