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Pages: 260
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-01-01 - Publisher: University of Toronto Press
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Language: en
Pages: 495
Pages: 495
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-07-02 - Publisher: Routledge
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
Language: en
Pages: 262
Pages: 262
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-04-30 - Publisher: Springer
This study examines the monsters that haunt twelfth-century British texts, arguing that in these strange bodies are expressed fears and fantasies about communit
Language: en
Pages: 221
Pages: 221
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-03-13 - Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications
At the center of this interdisciplinary study are court monsters--dwarves, hirsutes, and misshapen individuals--who, by their very presence, altered Renaissance
Language: en
Pages: 364
Pages: 364
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-11-21 - Publisher: Springer Nature
This collection examines the intersection of the discourses of “disability” and “monstrosity” in a timely and necessary intervention in the scholarly fi