whitmerule:unwomanly:Christ’s side wound in illuminated manuscripts medievalist here:&hel
whitmerule:unwomanly:Christ’s side wound in illuminated manuscripts medievalist here:… it is soooo not just you, it’s not accidental, sensually charged adoration of Christ and his body (and his sexy sexy wounds) is A Thing at this period - the phrase to search if you want to google it as ‘affective piety’. And it’s not just in the visual arts: visions of religious ecstasy, erotic anecdotes of divine visitation, prayers where one imagines one’s male body as feminised in order to, ahem, receive the body of Christ in fairly unambiguously sexual ways… … it’s a thing. -- source link