Monosandalismo

This paper is devoted to the main groups of iconographical motifs of removed shoes, discalceation, and monosandalism in Early Netherlandish and German art and their relation to the gestures of treading.
Firstly, these are motifs symbolizing otherness, heresy, stupidity, insanity, and buffoonery in the stories of “The Ship of Fools”, “The Prodigal Son”, “Extraction of Stones of Folly” (Moria), and others. The roots of these motifs of laughter culture can be associated with the ancient monosandalism of the Dionysian motives of disbalance.
Secondly, these are the motifs of legal symbolism — the Jewish rituals of the cession of rights (Kinyan), including the ritual of divorce in the levirate marriage (Khalitsa), respect for jurisdiction by removing the shoes before the sacred place and derivative genre motifs (for example, the regional cult of the “Joseph’s diapers”).
Particular attention has been paid to the legal symbolism of divorce (Mt. 1:19) in the context of the analysis of the European divorce and the separation “a mensa et thoro” statistics in the 14th–15th centuries, reflecting the specifics of paternalistic relations in the Franco-Flemish region. Thirdly, these are other genre, erotic, folklore and literary motifs. In the form of genre details, sometimes with possible allusions to the above-mentioned meanings, these motifs are inherited in the art of the 17th century, for example, in paintings by Rembrandt, Metsyu, and Vermeer.

En este breve escrito se hace un seguimiento al fenómeno de la "anomalía deambulatoria" y el monosandalismo,. Se hace una breve introducción de estos términos en el marco del mito y algunos ritos. Luego, se aplicarán estas manid¡festaciones a ejemplos del cine, la literatura y los mass media. El fenómenos vinculado a l pie calzado seutiliza ahora en las manifetsaciones populares como caracterizador de los personajes que lo portan.

A story that follows on from my version of Perseus and Medusa…

Perseus flew on, away from Medusa. He gave thanks to Athene that he had understood her words, “It is necessary that I have the head of Medusa. Therefore I bid you seek her out”, just in time to avoid a killing.

He flew across the sea until he reached a rocky coastline, the boundary of a fertile kingdom. Here he landed and was given hospitality by the king and queen. Though they made him a welcome guest he could see that they were greatly upset and he asked why. He learnt that they had offended the Changeless Changeable Ones, the Goddesses of the Sea. They had sent out a sea-serpent and demanded that the princess Andromeda be given to the monster. The king and queen begged Perseus, who they could see was a hero, to aid them and he agreed.

Next morning Andromeda was taken to the seashore and chained to a rock. She asked them not to chain her, saying that it was not necessary and that the monster was her fate. But they were afraid she would run away and bring a worse disaster on the land, and they would not listen to her.