You may find the "Münchner Kind'l" interesting. He's the official symbol
of the city of Munich. Young, plump, cheery, with a beer krug in one hand
and a large white radish in the other.
Phyllis
>Does anyone know where I can find some popular culture images (such as
>advertisements) featuring monks? I'm thinking of things like the old
>xerox ad where the xerox machine came down from heaven into a
>scriptorium (in fact, I'm looking for that one in particular). My
>impression is that popular culture depicts monks as fat, jolly, bald men
>who spend all their time copying manuscripts.
>
>I'm in the process of planning a new freshman humanities course called
>"Origins of the West," and one of the texts is going to be Benedict's
>Rule. I thought acknowledging the popular image of monks would be an
>interesting way of introducing our discussion of what the Rule says that
>monks are actually supposed to do.
>
>I tried xerox.com, but no luck there.
>
>Thanks in advance,
>--
>Teresa Rupp
>Department of History
>Mount St. Mary's College
>Emmitsburg, MD 21727
>
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