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The Masculine Ruling Elite and its Catastrophic Addiction Undated photographs released by the U.S. Department of Justice on show Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor (formerly Prince Andrew) on all fours, crouching over a fully clothed, unidentified female lying pr…

"Brigid is also credited for inventing and crafting a whistle to use for night travel. It was used, particularly by women, for calling to one another so they could be located and kept safe through the night. I cannot help but think of the whistles that are being used now, here in the U.S., to alert our neighbours and community when ICE thugs invade to kidnap or murder people. It is powerful (and empowering!) to me, to know how ancient this practice really is. In fact, in as early as the third century, night watchmen in ancient China reportedly used acorn tops as whistles, to signal invasions, and in ancient Egypt, papyrus leaves were blown to create loud, signaling sounds." ~ Tristy Taylor, in Portland, Ore.

Imbolc (Candlemas, Brigid Day, Lady Day) by Y. Owens and J. North O'Connell Brigid’s holy day occurs during the Celtic lunar month known as Saille or Willow, known for its emphasis on the Feminine Mysteries, including sexuality, menstruation, pregnancy, childbirth and a woman’s independence or sovereignty. (Interestingly,

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Cattle Cult Theology and You: A Discourse The original caste system of the warrior horse tribes of the Eurasian plateau, those of the Yamnaya expansion diaspora, consisted of five…

About Abject Eroticism in Northern Renaissance Art:

Hans Baldung Grien, the most famous apprentice and close friend of German artist Albrecht Dürer, was known for his unique and highly eroticised images of witches. In paintings and woodcut prints, he gave powerful visual expression to late medieval tropes and stereotypes, such as the poison maiden, venomous virgin, the Fall of Man, 'death and the maiden' and other motifs and eschatological themes, which mingled abject and erotic qualities in the female body.

Yvonne Owens reads these images against the humanist intellectual milieu of Renaissance Germany, showing how classical and medieval medicine and natural philosophy interpreted female anatomy as toxic, defective and dangerously beguiling. She reveals how Hans Baldung exploited this radical polarity to create moralising and titillating portrayals of how monstrous female sexuality victimised men and brought them low. Furthermore, these images issued from, and contributed to, the contemporary understanding of witchcraft as a heresy that stemmed from natural 'feminine defect,' a concept derived from Aristotle. Offering new and provocative interpretations of Hans Baldung's iconic witchcraft imagery, this book is essential reading for historians of art, culture and gender relations in the late medieval and early modern periods.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Foreword by Joseph Leo Koerner
Introduction: Baldung's Polluted Witches, Poison Maids, Basilisks and Crones
1. The Abject Erotic Feminine in Baldung
2. The World of Baldung's 1510 Witches' Sabbath
3. Baldung's 'Jewish' Witches
4. Baldung and the Witch Doctors
5. Blood, Visions, Witch Women and Saints
6. Baldung and the Morality of Vision
7. Classical Reception, Toxic Femininity and Hippomanes
8. Humanist Humour in Baldung
9. Erudite Obscenities and Pious Po*******hy
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Endnotes
Index

Reviews:

“This is an exceptional study. In the crowded field of witch research it stands out for many reasons; the breadth of material employed, the deep knowledge of primary and secondary sources, and the arrangement of an amazing wealth of scholarship around one artist, Hans Baldung Grien.” ~ Gerhild Scholz Williams, Washington University in St. Louis, USA

“Yvonne Owens has brilliantly overcome an important deficit in our contemporary understanding of Baldung's scenes of witchcraft. One of their many puzzling features is a ubiquity of fumes, the origins and nature of which are made deliberately obscure. The nature, aim, and terrifying scope of this specialty are the themes of Owens' remarkable book.” ~ Joseph Leo Koerner, Thomas Professor of History of Art & Architecture, Harvard University, USA

“The images alone would be enough to recommend Yvonne Owens’s study of Hans Baldung Grien, famous for his fleshly images of witches...Yet Owens’s patient feminist analysis also shows how Grien exploited medical and philosophical notions of female anatomy as ‘toxic’ and ‘dangerously beguiling.’ Far from participating in the humanist intellectual conversations of his time, his woodcuts and paintings depicted how ‘a monstrous female sexuality victimized men and brought them low.”' ~ Merve Emre, Shapiro-Silverberg University Professor of Creative Writing and Criticism at Wesleyan University, USA, and recipient of the Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing.

Terracotta seal depicting a female deity as a mistress of animals, holding or battling two tigers and standing above an elephant. A spoked wheel or solar symbol is above the head of the deity. Dated ca 2600 BC from Harappa, Indus Valley Civilization.

Harappa Museum, Pakistan