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Record Number:
16266
Author(s)/Creator(s):
Block , Elaine C.
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Title:
Half Angel - Half Beast: Images of Women on Misericords [The author investigates the reasons why carvings of women appear on misericords, and shows how these carvings evoke women's negative associations with abstract vices, beasts, and devils. A comprehensive list of women on misericords appears at the end of the article. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source:
Reinardus: Yearbook of the International Reynard Society 5, ( 1992): Pages 17 - 34.
Description:
Article Type:
Journal Article
Subject
(See Also)
:
Animals, Image of
Iconography
Misericords
Sins in Art
Vices in Art
Women in Art
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General
Century:
General
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Year of Publication:
1992.
Language:
English
ISSN/ISBN:
09254757