The Monstrous Middle Ages  -  Bettina Bildhauer and Robert Mills

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The figure of the monster in medieval culture functions as a vehicle for a range of intellectual and spiritual inquiries, from questions of language and representation to issues of moral, theological, and cultural value. Monstrosity is bound up with questions of body image and deformity, nature and knowledge, hybridity and horror. To explore a culture's attitudes to the monstrous is to comprehend one of its most important symbolic tools. The Monstrous Middle Ages looks at both the representation of lit...
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2003 Uitgever: University Of Toronto Press 210 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0802086675 ISBN-13: 9780802086679