A discourse on the worship of Priapus, and its connection with the mystic theology of the ancients / by Richard Payne Knight. To which is added an essay on the worship of the generative powers during the Middle Ages of western Europe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Knight, Richard Payne, 1751-1824, author.

Series:

Archives of Sexuality and Gender: Sex and Sexuality, Sixteenth to Twentieth Century.

Archives of Sexuality and Gender: Sex and Sexuality, Sixteenth to Twentieth Century

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Priapus (Greek deity)--Cult.

Priapus.

Phallicism.

Phallicism--Europe.

Sex--Religious aspects.

Sex.

Phallicism--Italy--Isernia.

Mysticism--History--Middle Ages, 600-1500.

Mysticism.

Isernia (Italy)--Religious life and customs.

Isernia (Italy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 254 pages, 40 leaves of plates) : illustrations.

Edition:

A new edition.

Other Title:

On the worship of the generative powers during the Middle Ages of western Europe.

Notes:

Half title: Two essays on the worship of Priapus.

"Privately printed."

"125 copies only, of which 6 on large paper."--H. S. Ashbee. Index librorum prohibitorum, 1877, p. 6.

The 1st essay is reprinted with the other matter with which it was published in 1786 under title: An account of the remains of the worship of Priapus ... in two letters, one from Sir William Hamilton ... and the other from a person residing at Isernia; to which is added, A discourse on the worship of Priapus ...

The 2d essay was written by Thomas Wright, assisted by J. E. Tennent and George Witt. Cf. Ashbee, p. 9. It is entitled: On the worship of the generative powers during the Middle Ages of werstern Europe.

Includes index.

Reproduction of the originals from New York Academy of Medicine.

Contains:

Wright, Thomas, 1810-1877. On the worship of the generative powers during the Middle Ages of western Europe. 1865.

OCLC:

1113927562