Animal symbolism in ecclesiastical architecture (1896)
Evans, E. P. (Edward Payson), 1831-1917 · New York : H. Holt · leaf 205
the twelfth century, and representing the wolfsnovitiate. The lupine candidate for a cloistral lifeor for the clerical office is learning his letters froma monk, who is seated on a faldstool with a peda-gogues baton consisting of a bundle of rods in hishand. The dull pupil, who holds a pointer… … Novitiate of the Wolf. {Freiburg Minster.) pastoral flock and endeavours to devour it. Thetonsured teacher applies the rod vigorously to theback of the recreant novice, whose natural appetitesassert themselves and are not to be extinguished bythe capoch. These works of art delineate episodesof the…
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