Les corps sans fins. Extensions animales et végétales les marges de la représentation (XIII e-XIVe siècle) (2012)
Dittmar, Pierre-Olivier (Author)
Micrologus: Natura, Scienze e Società Medievali
Volume: 20
Pages: 25--42
Publication date: 2012
Language: French
Publication Date: 2012
Edition Details: Article in a special issue, “Estremità e escrescenze dei corpi / Extremities and Excrescences of the Body”
Edition Details: Article in a special issue, “Estremità e escrescenze dei corpi / Extremities and Excrescences of the Body”
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The increasing moralisation during the twelfth century, marked by the figure of the snake of temptation. In contrast, the various forms of vegetal extensions, in both Romanesque statuary and the Gothic initials, blur the boundaries of the body and express in an ornemental and a performative way, the continuity of the created world.
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