This chapter dwells upon the second millennium, bringing us face to face with those things that never happened, things about which we often shut our eyes: here the focus shifts to mediaeval reformulations of this legend and the beguiling ways that granted the strength of lived experience to a widespread belief in the dangerousness of the female gaze, pulling it down into the hidden spiral of menstruation. In the nocturnal regime of the mediaeval imaginary, as conceptualized by G. Durand, water, lunar rhythms, flowing hair, snakes, the gaze and menstrual blood all absorbed the negative shades contained in all these stories of evil femininity.
In the Nocturnal Regime of the Medieval Imaginary
GIALLONGO ANGELA
2017
Abstract
This chapter dwells upon the second millennium, bringing us face to face with those things that never happened, things about which we often shut our eyes: here the focus shifts to mediaeval reformulations of this legend and the beguiling ways that granted the strength of lived experience to a widespread belief in the dangerousness of the female gaze, pulling it down into the hidden spiral of menstruation. In the nocturnal regime of the mediaeval imaginary, as conceptualized by G. Durand, water, lunar rhythms, flowing hair, snakes, the gaze and menstrual blood all absorbed the negative shades contained in all these stories of evil femininity.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.