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The Monstrous Middle Ages
Language: en
Pages: 260
Authors: Bettina Bildhauer
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-01-01 - Publisher: University of Toronto Press

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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 represe
Medieval Monstrosity and the Female Body
Language: en
Pages: 495
Authors: Sarah Alison Miller
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-07-02 - Publisher: Routledge

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The medieval monster is a slippery construct, and its referents include a range of religious, racial, and corporeal aberrations. In this study, Miller argues th
Hybridity, Identity, and Monstrosity in Medieval Britain
Language: en
Pages: 262
Authors: J. Cohen
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-04-30 - Publisher: Springer

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This study examines the monsters that haunt twelfth-century British texts, arguing that in these strange bodies are expressed fears and fantasies about communit
Portraits of Human Monsters in the Renaissance
Language: en
Pages: 221
Authors: Touba Ghadessi
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-03-13 - Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications

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At the center of this interdisciplinary study are court monsters--dwarves, hirsutes, and misshapen individuals--who, by their very presence, altered Renaissance
Monstrosity, Disability, and the Posthuman in the Medieval and Early Modern World
Language: en
Pages: 364
Authors: Richard H. Godden
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-11-21 - Publisher: Springer Nature

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This collection examines the intersection of the discourses of “disability” and “monstrosity” in a timely and necessary intervention in the scholarly fi