The Orphic Beauty of Milton's Devil
| dc.citation.epage | 75 | |
| dc.citation.spage | 63 | |
| dc.contributor.author | Abecassis, Michael | |
| dc.contributor.editor | Houliston,Victor | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-09-03T12:13:21Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2019-09-03T12:13:21Z | |
| dc.date.created | 2000 | |
| dc.date.issued | 2000 | |
| dc.description.abstract | In Judaeo-Christian iconography, the Devil is traditionally portrayed as a grotesque and terrifying-looking creature. Half-human half-monster, the fallen angel is adorned with stag’s antlers, straight, pointed ears, a hooked nose and a lion’s muzzle; the back of his head forms a point and he has a goatee beard. He is framed by serrated, bat-like wings; his eyes glow, his legs are hirsute and his goatlike feet end in curved, sharp-pointed claws (see Richardson 39). Satan’s image differs in the fifteenth century, where he is an androgynous figure, depicted either as ‘a woman-headed [serpent] often resembling Eve [or as] a male, a charming putto, a bristling monster’ (McColley 20). Often assimilated to his female counterpart, Lilith, he is the incarnation of an erotico-religious bestiality. His tiara of horns (in Hebrew queren means both ‘horn’ and ‘ray [of light]’2) is the symbol of his virility as well as his divine splendour. | |
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| dc.description.uri | https://sasmars.wordpress.com/sasmars-journal/ | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1017-3455 | |
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| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12430/549141 | |
| dc.journal.title | Southern African Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies | |
| dc.journal.volume | 10 | |
| dc.language.iso | English | |
| dc.publisher | The Southern African Society for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (SASMARS) | |
| dc.subject | Middle Ages -- Periodicals. | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | Renaissance -- Periodicals. | |
| dc.subject | Middle Ages. | |
| dc.subject | Renaissance. | |
| dc.title | The Orphic Beauty of Milton's Devil | |
| dc.type | Journal Article | |
| local.Place | University of the Witwatersrand, Braamfontein , Johannesburg | |
| local.dctitlejournal.Abbreviation | SAJMRS | |
| local.roman.epage | 75 | |
| local.roman.spage | 63 |