Ebook: The Monstrous Middle Ages
Author: Bildhauer Bettina, Mills Robert
- Genre: History
- Tags: English literature -- Middle English 1100-1500 -- History and criticism, Monsters in literature, Monsters -- Symbolic aspects -- History -- To 1500, Literature Medieval -- History and criticism, Monsters in art, English literature -- Middle English, Literature Medieval, Monsters -- Symbolic aspects
- Year: 2003
- Publisher: University of Wales Press
- City: Cardiff
- Language: English
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The Monstrous Middle Ages looks at both the representation of literal monsters and the consumption and exploitation of monstrous metaphors in a wide variety of high and late-medieval cultural productions, from travel writing and mystical texts, to sermons, manuscript illuminations and maps. Individual essays explore the ways in which monstrosity shaped the construction of gendered and racial identities, religious Read more...