Salacious and Sinful Simians in The Macclesfield Psalter: An Iconographic Study
The ubiquity of apes in the margins of Gothic devotional prayer books, often doing deeds that would seem blasphemous to our modern sensibilities, has long caused confusion amongst scholars. Such images may be seen in The Macclesfield Psalter, a lavishly illuminated fourteenth-century manuscript, whi...
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University of Western Australia
2015-03-01
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| Series: | Limina: A Journal of Historical and Cultural Studies |
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| Online Access: | http://www.limina.arts.uwa.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0008/2697434/Midgley-article.pdf |