Re: Naked warrior fighting a dragon?

celia <c_a_blay@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> The naked warrior represents Christ as the second Adam
>> do you have some references for that?

What little I know of this agrees with what Celia is
saying. Medieval art was filled with what I shall call
"visual cliches" (not meant to be a put-down) that have
little or no meaning to us.

There were all sorts of "standard images" that meant something
to their viewers. We have this today with images -- and no
medieval would understand them. Consider a picture of a
teen-ager in his or her messy room talking on the telephone.
That conjures up for us a whole story to go with the picture.

---- Paul J. Gans

>The honest answer is that I looked at the first picture
>and just knew. The line of the English hymn,
>'A second Adam to the fight and to the rescue came'
>came into my head.
>To analyse this, many years ago I studied illuminated
> manuscripts while doing a thesis on Middle English lyrics;
>the image of the dragon as Satan is a common one,
>as is the position of the Christ figure killing the dragon.
>Christ can be shown in many forms, a child,
>the Archangel Michael etc. I have never seen Christ as Adam
>before. Despite my difficulties with Adam being
>depicted as a woodwose in the second picture the
>reading of the meaning was confirmed by the
>juxtaposition of Samson killing the lion and here I
>can give you a reference; in 'Animals with Human Faces'
>a guide to animal symbolism by Beryl Rowland,she says
> "Daniel's seven lions symbolised the Seven Deadly Sins,
> and Samson's lion might signify death or the Devil,
> since Samson's victory prefigured that of Christ.
> Some carvers even depicted the lion's jaws,
> instead of the whale's or dragon's maw,
> as the mouth of hell' showing the contorted
> faces of dead sinners within"
>This book concentrates on animal images in
>medieval art.

>The dragon as a symbol of Satan is only found in
>Revelations, elsewhere in the English Bibles
>'dragon' is a mistranslation.
> The other Bible reference is
>1 Corinthians chapter 15 verses 22 & 45

> Celia

.

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