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25 novembre 2022
- doi: 10.4000/books.pup.63512
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Aureo Lustosa Guerios Neto, « Disgust and avoidance », Presses universitaires de Provence, ID : 10.4000/books.pup.63512
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In Images of Plague and Pestilence, Christine Boeckl makes an interesting remark when discussing the representation of Saint Roch in paintings and images. Being the intercessor against the plague, he is usually depicted folding his mantle to exhibit an easily recognisable plague bubo in his leg. Although buboes can also appear in the neck or arm-pit, their most recurrent place of eruption is high up in the leg, in the crotch, near to the sexual organs. For the sake of scientific realism, then...