The Monstrous Middle Ages
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. Monsters embody cultural tensions that go far beyond the idea of the monster as simply an unintelligible and abject other. This text 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 w…
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Weitere Autoren: Mills, Robert (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-78683-175-0
- EAN: 9781786831750
- Produktnummer: 23921926
- Verlag: University of Wales Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 236 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 3'750 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
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