The movie’s inciting religious incident is a human act that’s never presented as otherwise to the audience, and its spiritual concerns are minimal. There are tame old-school British farces such as Nuns On The Run (1990), in which Robbie Coltrane and Eric Idle are cross-dressing convicts who hide out in a convent. Smearing nuns (and priests) as sexual degenerates was a significant part of the anti-Catholic propaganda that Henry VIII deployed when he dissolved the monasteries.

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In other words, it’s not the “primitive” peoples in the valley below coming undone in the absence of smog. Eager to disorient his audience, Suzuki’s camera spins and tilts, then pauses on symmetrical frames that turn the uniformity of the nuns’ habits and expressions cultlike and sinister. If the subgenre name ends in - sploitation, it’s likely that Bruno Mattei gave it the old college try. Obnoxiously punctuated disaster To the Devil … a Daughter is among the last films produced by Hammer, the British production company that revitalized the Gothic horror and monster genres successfully into the ’60s. Marginalia provides a great repository of information about the way things actually looked, such as clothing, goods, and architecture.On the other hand, I also think these low-brow jokes are a nice reminder that medieval society wasn’t just about prayer and plagues. Ken Russell’s The Devils, co-starring Vanessa Redgrave and Oliver Reed, essentially set the mould and remained censored for decades due to a sensational scene involving a ginormous crucifix. Kawalerowicz lets the camera hover at eye level, pulling the audience into conspiratorial conversations and staring down at a prostrated Suryn framed so as to resemble an inverted cross. In 1300, a nun recorded only as “Cecily” turns up in the Assize Rolls because she met a group of men at the priory gate, flung off her habit, and ran off to Darlington to live with Gregory de Thornton.

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Aherne often had “an entourage of close female friends” to ward off the loneliness of gigging alone. Correlation does not equal causation, of course, but the connection between her rate of morphine blackouts and the rate at which her patients are getting murdered might be something worth looking into. But these materials were expensive, and coupled with the hours of labor that went into them, books were costly to commission.Furious to discover he has secretly married, she accuses him of possessing her — music to the ears of Grandier’s political and religious enemies. The prevailing view for most of the 19th and 20th centuries was that marginalia was nonsensical, unserious, profane, and had nothing to do with the sacred images it surrounded.

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But the reverend mother has bigger problems, mainly whatever’s in the attic and the “faceless” “spirit” (mind the budget) wandering the halls. Yet marginalia artists still had the last laugh because they could poke fun at what was already on the page or any mistakes they found. Jerzy Kawalerowicz’s Mother Joan of the Angels is an incredible piece of filmmaking, Polish, postwar, or otherwise. Our modern understanding of the word “marginal” says something about what this sort of art this was. Though the meaning of specific images is still hotly debated, scholars conjecture that marginalia allowed artists to highlight important passages (or insert text that was accidentally left out), to poke fun at the religious establishment, or to make pop-culture references medieval readers could relate to.The girls have no idea where they're going when they first get to the nunnery, and some have packed for a holiday. After whisking Alucarda away from her own exorcism, the local doctor opens a book titled Satan, reads it for two whole seconds, then declares, “Rubbish.

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Grotesques are recognizable yet they make you feel uncomfortable, and often lend themselves well to sculpture.In the segment about demonic possession in convents, a nun tormented by visions of a tongue-wagging devil desecrates the eucharist before spreading her dancing mania to her sisters. It isn’t known when Joanna was confined to Clementhorpe, but whenever it was, she had no intention of staying. Truly, no one could have seen that coming, which is ironic because according to the Pontiff, that’s exactly what nuns have been doing.