Images, Texts, and Marginalia in a "Vows of the Peacock"
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Images, Texts, and Marginalia in a "Vows of the Peacock" is a book by Domenic Leo.
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A taxonomic vocabulary of hybrids
The book Images, Texts, and Marginalia in a "Vows of the Peacock" by Domenic Leo gives a taxonomic vocabulary of hybrids in which the gryllus is one element:
- "I am using terminology proposed by Sandler, “Reflections on the Construction of Hybrids,” and Jurgis Baltrušaitis, Le moyen âge fantastique. The rudimentary taxonomic vocabulary for hybrids is as follows: bifurcated (head as center with two bodies), gryllus (body with no torso: head replaces genitals), pushmepullu (one body with a head emerging from each side), and composite (hybrids created from multiple parts)."
In the index, this is a list of hybrids mentioned: bifurcates, composite, grylli, orally aggressive, open-mouthed and/or biting, pushmepullu, scoopmouth, swallowing/vomiting.
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From the publisher
- The "Vows of the Peacock" - written in 1312 and dedicated to Thibaut de Bar, bishop of Liège - recounts how Alexander the Great comes to the aid of a family of aristocrats threatened by Indians. The poem remained popular throughout the fourteenth century and was soon followed by two sequels. Twenty-six illuminated manuscripts constitute part of a catalogue and concordance of all Peacock manuscripts. One of the most provocative, (PML, MS G24), has twenty-two miniatures which illustrate chivalry and courtly love, as epitomized in the text. An unusually high number of scurrilous marginalia, however, surround them. An interdisciplinary exploration of iconography, reception, image-text-marginalia dynamics, and context reveals their ultimate polysemy as scatological comedians and serious harbingers of sin.
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