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phenomenon, and also contains a complete catalogue of all known Sheela-na-gigs, including hitherto unrecorded or unpublished figures.
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... pagan cult, others as protective talismans or Christian warnings against lust. Here Barbara Freitag examines all the literature on the subject, highlighting the inconsistencies of the various interpretations with regard to origin ...
... pagan cult, others as protective talismans or Christian warnings against lust. Here Barbara Freitag examines all the literature on the subject, highlighting the inconsistencies of the various interpretations with regard to origin ...
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... pagan cult, others as protective talismans or good luck charms, to name but a few interpretations. The most favoured critical opinion, however, claims that they are copies of French sculptures put on Romanesque churches as warnings ...
... pagan cult, others as protective talismans or good luck charms, to name but a few interpretations. The most favoured critical opinion, however, claims that they are copies of French sculptures put on Romanesque churches as warnings ...
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... pagan place of worship which was later converted to the worship of God. Because they seemed to be so crude in conception and coarse in execution the understandable supposition was, when Sheelas were first discovered, that their origin ...
... pagan place of worship which was later converted to the worship of God. Because they seemed to be so crude in conception and coarse in execution the understandable supposition was, when Sheelas were first discovered, that their origin ...
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... pagan sites. 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 ...
... pagan sites. 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 ...
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... pagan origin. Perhaps pagans had been wronged by Christians, he tolerantly mused. He referred to John Milton's preliminary observations to Samson Agonistes, where he says that in physic2 things of melancholic hue and quality are used ...
... pagan origin. Perhaps pagans had been wronged by Christians, he tolerantly mused. He referred to John Milton's preliminary observations to Samson Agonistes, where he says that in physic2 things of melancholic hue and quality are used ...
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