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."
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> GHB
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> On Jun 27, 2013, at 3:59 PM, John Wickstrom wrote:
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> > 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.
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> > Best,
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> > John w.
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