1st Edition
Medieval Monstrosity Imagining the Monstrous in Medieval Europe
By Charity Urbanski
Copyright 2024
306 Pages
by
Routledge
306 Pages
by
Routledge
306 Pages
by
Routledge
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This volume examines various manifestations and understandings of the concept of monstrosity in medieval Europe around 500-1500 ce through a collection of contextual chapters and primary sources.
The main chapters focus on a specific theme, a type of monster or representation of monstrosity, and consist of a contextual essay synthesizing recent scholarship on that theme, excerpts from primary... Read more
1. Monster Theory and The Monstrous Races 2. Non-Christians as Monsters: Jews and Muslims 3. The Monstrous Female Body, Monstrous Women, and Monstrous Births 4. Revenants 5. Werewolves 6. Dragons
Biography
Dr. Charity Urbanski is Teaching Professor at the University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, specializing in twelfth-century England and France. Her research interests include historiography, gender, power, and monstrosity. She is the author of Writing History for the King: Henry II and the Politics of Vernacular Historiography.
