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phenomenon, and also contains a complete catalogue of all known Sheela-na-gigs, including hitherto unrecorded or unpublished figures.
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... Scotland and Wales, and a similarly small number have been reported from Denmark, Germany and France. Because of evidence that Sheelas were hacked away from church buildings and destroyed, buried or thrown into rivers in post-medieval ...
... Scotland and Wales, and a similarly small number have been reported from Denmark, Germany and France. Because of evidence that Sheelas were hacked away from church buildings and destroyed, buried or thrown into rivers in post-medieval ...
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Unravelling an Enigma Barbara Freitag. of old age and scrawniness. A big hole was cut into the throat of Kilmokea (55) and Seir Kieran (79). Map 2 Map of England, Scotland and Wales showing location.
Unravelling an Enigma Barbara Freitag. of old age and scrawniness. A big hole was cut into the throat of Kilmokea (55) and Seir Kieran (79). Map 2 Map of England, Scotland and Wales showing location.
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Unravelling an Enigma Barbara Freitag. Map 2 Map of England, Scotland and Wales showing location of Sheela-na-gigs. Continuing with the torso, its most striking feature has already been alluded to, namely the curious contrast between ...
Unravelling an Enigma Barbara Freitag. Map 2 Map of England, Scotland and Wales showing location of Sheela-na-gigs. Continuing with the torso, its most striking feature has already been alluded to, namely the curious contrast between ...
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... Scotland and one each in France and Italy.48 No views are advanced to explain these 'remarkable figures'; in fact the compiler deliberately eschewed entering into any discussion on matters of such a controversial nature. Although ...
... Scotland and one each in France and Italy.48 No views are advanced to explain these 'remarkable figures'; in fact the compiler deliberately eschewed entering into any discussion on matters of such a controversial nature. Although ...
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... Scotland and Wales Scholars of the neighbouring island were hampered by similar puritanical reservations. When R.Payne Knight published A Discourse on the Worship of Priapus, in 1786, the sensibilities of the higher classes of English ...
... Scotland and Wales Scholars of the neighbouring island were hampered by similar puritanical reservations. When R.Payne Knight published A Discourse on the Worship of Priapus, in 1786, the sensibilities of the higher classes of English ...
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