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medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture I seem to remember Michael Camille giving a talk at which he showed a 15thC (?) marginal image of a boy bell-ringer, arguing for an obscene reading. I think he cited Chuck Berry 'My ding-a-ling' along the way, but Anita Ward's 'You can ring my bell' also comes to mind... hopefully you get the idea. The boy's nakedness may perhaps fit with ideas about sexual sin? Laura On 29 June 2013 04:28, John Dillon <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture > > Closer in time to the illumination in that late eleventh- or > twelfth-century antiphonary from Glanfeuil < > http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8422977w/f545.image.r=12584.langEN> > is this later fifteenth-century limewood statue, now in Munich, of a male > dancer with bells fastened to his left leg below the calf: > http://www.wga.hu/art/g/grasser/morris_d.jpg > http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/html/g/grasser/morris_d.html > > Best, > John Dillon > > On 06/28/13, George Brown wrote: > > > > A friend points out a kind of modern analogue: > > "One of my more .... errm .... worldly friends once told me about the > naked morris dancers at the Folsom Street Fair, who safety-pin jingle bells > into their flesh." > > > > > > GHB > > > > > > On Jun 27, 2013, at 3:59 PM, John Wickstrom wrote: > > > > > medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and > culture > > > Does any learned list member have a clue as to the iconography of this > “bell-boy” figure? It is from a late 11th or early 12th c antiphonary from > Glanfeuil abbey on the Loire (perhaps illustrated at Fossés abbey in > Paris). The page begins the office for the first Sunday in Lent; so one > might suggest that the nude figure represents the repentant sinner or > perhaps the poor, ringing the bells for alms. But why are the bells > inserted into his flesh? Help. > > > > > > Best, > > > > > > John w. > > ********************************************************************** > To join the list, send the message: subscribe medieval-religion YOUR NAME > to: [log in to unmask] > To send a message to the list, address it to: > [log in to unmask] > To leave the list, send the message: unsubscribe medieval-religion > to: [log in to unmask] > In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: > [log in to unmask] > For further information, visit our web site: > http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/medieval-religion > -- Dr. Laura Jacobus Senior Lecturer in History of Art Birkbeck College, University of London For details of my book on Giotto and the Arena Chapel see http://www.brepols.net/Pages/ShowProduct.aspx?prod_id=IS-9781905375127-1 ********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: subscribe medieval-religion YOUR NAME to: [log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it to: [log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the message: unsubscribe medieval-religion to: [log in to unmask] In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: [log in to unmask] For further information, visit our web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/medieval-religion