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The Monstrous Middle Ages Paperback - 2004
by Bettina Bildhauer (Editor); Robert Mills (Editor)
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- Title The Monstrous Middle Ages
- Author Bettina Bildhauer (Editor); Robert Mills (Editor)
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: first
- Pages 210
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Toronto Press, Downsview, Ontario, Canada
- Date 2004-01
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780802086679 / 0802086675
- Weight 0.81 lbs (0.37 kg)
- Dimensions 8.9 x 6.36 x 0.57 in (22.61 x 16.15 x 1.45 cm)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004267057
- Dewey Decimal Code 820.937
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Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 8 1/2" X 5 1/2". xiii, 236pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper wraps. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: 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 literal monsters and the consumption and exploitation of monstrous metaphors in a wide variety of high and late-medieval cultural productions, from travel writings and mystical texts to sermons, manuscript illuminations and maps. Individual essays explore the ways in…
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