Sheela-na-gigs
Here Barbara Freitag examines all the literature on the subject since their discovery 160 years ago, highlighting the inconsistencies of the various interpretations in regard to origin, function and name. By considering the Sheela-na-gigs in their medieval social context, she suggests that they were...
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| description | Here Barbara Freitag examines all the literature on the subject since their discovery 160 years ago, highlighting the inconsistencies of the various interpretations in regard to origin, function and name. By considering the Sheela-na-gigs in their medieval social context, she suggests that they were folk deities with particular responsibility for assistance in childbirth. This fascinating survey sheds new light on a controversial phenomenon, and also contains a complete catalogue of all known Sheela-na-gigs, including hitherto unrecorded or unpublished figures. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1606542025-05-28T05:51:11Z Sheela-na-gigs Freitag, Barbara Young Man St Patricks patrick's National Library day Scottish Gaelic patricks St Patrick’s Day celebrations St Patrick’s Day Celebrations stone English Dialect Dictionary carving Church Stretton fertility Dead Man figures Raglan Castle british Folk Deities isles Early Irish Tales Evil Eye Llandrindod Wells Early Irish Literature Birthing Stones Irish Language Round Towers Gaelic Slip Jigs thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NK Archaeology::NKD Archaeology by period / region thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NK Archaeology::NKA Archaeological theory Here Barbara Freitag examines all the literature on the subject since their discovery 160 years ago, highlighting the inconsistencies of the various interpretations in regard to origin, function and name. By considering the Sheela-na-gigs in their medieval social context, she suggests that they were folk deities with particular responsibility for assistance in childbirth. This fascinating survey sheds new light on a controversial phenomenon, and also contains a complete catalogue of all known Sheela-na-gigs, including hitherto unrecorded or unpublished figures. 2025-05-28T05:51:10Z 2025-05-28T05:51:10Z 2025-05-27T10:37:29Z 2005 book ONIX_20250527T122911_9781134282494_27 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/102749 9781134282494 9781134282487 9780415345521 9780203567067 9780415345538 9781135113421 9781134282449 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/160654 eng open access image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/102749/1/9781134282494.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9780203567067 10.4324/9780203567067 fa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0 9781134282494 9781134282487 9780415345521 9780203567067 9780415345538 9781135113421 9781134282449 Routledge 232 Oxford open access |
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