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Or, The Mystery of the 94th Penis.¹
A burning question....
Now, on to the exposed genitalia (all male naturally). The dispute was started some six years ago when Oxford professor George Garnett published an article noting that he had counted up 93 penises stitched into the tapestry.²
The world was awed at the accuracy of the count. Magnifiers were held over representations of the cloth to check.
But now a dispute has erupted in the narrow area where art, history, and obsessive counting of male genitalia on works of art intersect³.
Is there a 94th penis?
Historian and Bayeux tapestry scholar Dr Christopher Monk⁴ believes he has found a 94th penis.
On the tapestry border a running man is embroidered. The man⁵ has something dangling beneath his tunic. This is the dispute.
Garnett says it is the scabbard of a sword or dagger. Monk insists it is a member.
Monk states:
The pair debate the discovery/dispute on the History Extra podcast, hodted by Dr David Musgrove
As an aside, the Tapestry was very much a political/propaganda work, hence the largest penis on show was attached to William the Bastard's horse...
Size matters.
1. Which would be an excellent title for a book. I'm thinking a time travel medieval queer romance featuring a time-traveller and a woman posing as a man pretending to be a monk, both attempting to access something hidden within the monastery. Shades of Once Corpse Too Many.
2. The question why Pr. Garnett did so is not answered. Really if you ask that you obviously don't have the proper mindset for historical research.
3. Something of a narrow area I'll admit. But you're reading this......
4. Who is known in some circles as 'The Medieval Monk'. Nominative determinism at work
5. Well it's assumed to be male, given the dangly bit. But who knows, it might be a strap on dildo?⁶
That might fit into my novel idea.
6. For those of you doubting such things existed in the eleventh century, or just interested in the history of the strap-on, they do precede the Norman Invasion of Britain. By perhaps nine thousand years.....
But that is for another post.
A burning question....
- Though obviously not as important as the correct plural of 'penis' I'll going with the usual 'penises' rather than the arguably more correct 'penes'.
Now, on to the exposed genitalia (all male naturally). The dispute was started some six years ago when Oxford professor George Garnett published an article noting that he had counted up 93 penises stitched into the tapestry.²
- It should be noted that the piece is not, technically, a tapestry. But, hey.....
The world was awed at the accuracy of the count. Magnifiers were held over representations of the cloth to check.
But now a dispute has erupted in the narrow area where art, history, and obsessive counting of male genitalia on works of art intersect³.
Is there a 94th penis?
Historian and Bayeux tapestry scholar Dr Christopher Monk⁴ believes he has found a 94th penis.
On the tapestry border a running man is embroidered. The man⁵ has something dangling beneath his tunic. This is the dispute.
Garnett says it is the scabbard of a sword or dagger. Monk insists it is a member.
Monk states:
Garnett remains unconvinced.
The pair debate the discovery/dispute on the History Extra podcast, hodted by Dr David Musgrove
As an aside, the Tapestry was very much a political/propaganda work, hence the largest penis on show was attached to William the Bastard's horse...
Size matters.
1. Which would be an excellent title for a book. I'm thinking a time travel medieval queer romance featuring a time-traveller and a woman posing as a man pretending to be a monk, both attempting to access something hidden within the monastery. Shades of Once Corpse Too Many.
2. The question why Pr. Garnett did so is not answered. Really if you ask that you obviously don't have the proper mindset for historical research.
3. Something of a narrow area I'll admit. But you're reading this......
4. Who is known in some circles as 'The Medieval Monk'. Nominative determinism at work
5. Well it's assumed to be male, given the dangly bit. But who knows, it might be a strap on dildo?⁶
That might fit into my novel idea.
6. For those of you doubting such things existed in the eleventh century, or just interested in the history of the strap-on, they do precede the Norman Invasion of Britain. By perhaps nine thousand years.....
But that is for another post.
