I am a PhD student in History of Art at Leicester University, where I
am researching a late C15th English alabaster retable of scenes from
the lives of St George and the Virgin, at La Selle in Normandy. I am
concentrating primarily on the (highly unusual) iconography, and also
looking at the physical, geographical and social context of the work:
it seems to be in its original framework, and may well be the product
of a commission by a local convent.
I am also working on the lost St George cycle in glass at Stamford
(preserved in manuscript drawings), and on images of St George where
he is presented in combat with an apparently feminised dragon...I
recently gave a paper on this topic at Kalamazoo, and have one forthcoming
at Leeds.
I am particularly interested in the iconography of virgin/chaste
saints, both male and female, and also in art and artefacts that
seem to be products of the devotion of women.
My first query: I have a reference to milk and blood, or milk, blood
and water, coming out of George's neck when he was beheaded. I
associate this phenomenon with female virgin martyrs. Are there any
other male saints where this happens (or am I not reading enough
saints' lives?)
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