The Monstrous Middle Ages

ISBN-13: 9780708318225 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 208 str.

Bettina Bildhauer;Robert Mills

Opis

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.