Manners of the man being ridden in Zamora’s choir stalls (and other representations)

Abstract

The motif called ‘Aristotle and Phyllis’ was carved in Gothic choir stalls of very distant European temples. But this is just one of the iconographic solutions that vary the same ‘framing-theme’ in the representations. After reviewing some problems of the investigation dealing with these sculptures, in this case we attend to two misericords of Zamora’s stalls that version the theme of the ride: one that represents some peculiar Aristotle and Phyllis, and another that represents a school punishment. To consider the meaning expressed through the forms that relate both scenes in this chorus, we turn to other representations that modulate the same discourse and share figurative mechanisms.