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Author Jones, Malcolm, 1953-

Title The secret Middle Ages / Malcolm Jones.

Imprint Westport, Conn. : Praeger, c2003.

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 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  940.1 J721s 2003    ---  Available
Description xxvi, 374 p., [18] p. plates : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Love, Death and Biscuits -- Magical Metal, Silly Saints and Risible Relics : the Art and Artefacts of Popular Religion -- Licked into Shape : Animal Symbolism -- Why Englishmen Have Tails : Race, Nationality and Monstrosity -- Signs of Infamy : the Iconography of Humiliation and Insult -- The Fool and the Attributes of Folly -- Shoeing the Goose : Proverbs and Proverbial Follies -- Nonsense, Pure and Applied -- Narratives - Heroic and Not So Heroic -- Hearts and Flowers and Parrots : the Iconography of Love -- Who Wears the Trousers : Gender Relations -- Wicked Willies with Wings : Sex and Sexuality -- Tailpiece : the Uses of Scatology -- Conclusion.
Subject Art, Medieval -- England -- Themes, motives.
Civilization, Secular, in art.
Civilization, Medieval.
Civilization, Medieval, in art.
Folk art -- Europe -- History.
Art, Medieval -- Europe.
Punishment -- Europe -- History -- To 1500.
ISBN 0275979806

 
    
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