Priapées (Arthur Forgeais)
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Priapées is a text by Arthur Forgeais on his collection of "enseignes érotiques", erotic pilgrim badges.
- In 1865 Forgeais published a sixteen-page booklet entitled Priapees, which illustrated 25 of the phallic and pudendum amulets he had excavated from the Seine, including the ten tokens seen in Figure 3. Historian Denis Bruna remarked that Forgeais,
- ... obviously found [them] an awkward and embarrassing subject to place within [the] context of a supposedly pious Christian society and fell back on the ideas of earlier excavators of Pompeii who initially considered such a vast quantity of erotica could only have been associated with brothels and prostitutes ... Forgeais supposed that .. . the wings of the phalli were assumed to designate eagerness and restless passion.[1]
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References
- Denis Bruna, "Medieval Sexual Badges, Amulets and Tokens: Arthur Forgeais and Some Notes on His Life and Discoveries," translated extract from Enseignes du Pelerinage et Enseignes Profanes. Accessed at (January 15, 2008), 5. No complete English translation of Priapees has been published to date.
- Pilgrim Souvenirs and Secular Badges (Medieval Finds from Excavations in London) (2008) by Brian Spencer
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