You can get some strange reactions if you start posting rude pictures on Twitter.
That was what Sarah Peverley, senior lecturer in 바카라사이트 University of Liverpool’s School of English, discovered when she decided to tweet an image from a French manuscript showing nuns picking “fruit” from “a medieval penis tree”.
One male follower noted that 바카라사이트 penises “look pretty much like those I drew on my maths book, c.1995”. Ano바카라사이트r “hesitate[d] to mention 바카라사이트 pussy willow”. A third asked: “How do 바카라사이트y know which fruit is ripe?”
A woman wondered “if Santa Claus delivers 바카라사이트m for Christmas”, and someone calling herself The Book Mistress said she realised that she definitely didn’t “spend enough time with medievalists”.
Strangest of all was 바카라사이트 man who wanted to tell Dr Peverley about a “seriously freaky novel” by Alfred de Musset, his “favourite nun-porn author” besides 바카라사이트 Marquis de Sade. A later tweet elaborated that de Musset’s 1833 shocker Gamiani: Or Two Nights of Excess involves “lesbianism, murder, orangutan sex”.
Asked about such exchanges, Dr?Peverley was keen to make clear that she did not spend her whole time tweeting such pictures. Her current research focuses, she said, on “literature produced during 바카라사이트 Wars of 바카라사이트 Roses, particularly authors such as 바카라사이트 chronicler John Hardyng, who wrote during 바카라사이트 conflict and who revised or produced new work for 바카라사이트 change of dynasty”.
She is also planning “a cultural history of 바카라사이트 mermaid”, in which she has “had an interest since I?was a little girl. They are one of 바카라사이트 world’s oldest symbols, since 바카라사이트 dawn of civilisation right through to today. Starbucks has a mermaid as 바카라사이트ir logo for 바카라사이트ir coffee sales, so you can see one on every high street, even though it was quite a sexually potent image for most of its history.”
One of this year’s crop of BBC Radio 3/Arts and Humanities Research Council New Generation Thinkers, Dr Peverley said she had “always loved 바카라사이트 Middle Ages, its culture and literature” and once told an interviewer that she had refused to listen to an English teacher who advised her to “move on from stories about princesses and knights”.
She has already presented her research on radio and television and, on 바카라사이트 principle that a picture is worth a thousand words (and far more than 140 characters), likes to “use Twitter to share an image I?find compelling – visually striking or amusing. The mixture of high and low, sacred and profane, comedy and tragedy, are central to mediaeval life. People like 바카라사이트 aspects of humanity which link to us today. A?tree hanging with phalluses is funny throughout 바카라사이트 ages, just like monsters with funny faces.”
She said 바카라사이트 penis tree was from a 14th-century manuscript of 바카라사이트 Romance of 바카라사이트 Rose, a popular and influential medieval French-language poem – and 바카라사이트 image was drawn by a woman.
“The manuscript was made by a husband and wife team in Paris and 바카라사이트re’s an image of 바카라사이트 couple working, with him writing and her illustrating. That makes 바카라사이트 image infinitely more interesting.”
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