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Author : Finch & Co
Release : 2008
Genre : Art objects
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Book Synopsis Marvels, Miracles & Monsters by : Finch & Co
Download or read book Marvels, Miracles & Monsters written by Finch & Co. This book was released on 2008. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Finch & Co
Release : 2008
Genre : Art objects
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Book Synopsis Miracles, Marvels and Monsters by : Finch & Co
Download or read book Miracles, Marvels and Monsters written by Finch & Co. This book was released on 2008. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Timothy S. Jones
Release : 2002
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Marvels, Monsters, and Miracles by : Timothy S. Jones
Download or read book Marvels, Monsters, and Miracles written by Timothy S. Jones. This book was released on 2002. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays examines medieval and early modern perceptions of the marvelous and the monstrous. The essays investigate the nature of those phenomena and how people of these periods experienced them and how they recreated that experience for others. The essays trace the development of representations of marvels and explicate individual incarnations of monster and miracles. They analyze the importance of marvelous difference in defining ethnic, racial, religious, class, and gender identities to ask what legacy the medieval confrontations with marvels left for the modern world. These excellent essays look at issues that have long perplexed readers, such as the meaning of marvels, and whether we can read them in earnest or whether they can be appreciated only as play. The different authors bring their expertise to the fore to discuss the development of thoughts on marvels from the classical tradition through the concept's development in the medieval and early modern tradition. This collection is essential reading for any analysis of the marvelous in these periods and the state of scholarship surrounding them.
Author : Timothy S. Jones
Release : 2002
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Marvels, Monsters, and Miracles by : Timothy S. Jones
Download or read book Marvels, Monsters, and Miracles written by Timothy S. Jones. This book was released on 2002. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays examines medieval and early modern perceptions of the marvelous and the monstrous. The essays investigate the nature of those phenomena and how people of these periods experienced them and how they recreated that experience for others. The essays trace the development of representations of marvels and explicate individual incarnations of monster and miracles. They analyze the importance of marvelous difference in defining ethnic, racial, religious, class, and gender identities to ask what legacy the medieval confrontations with marvels left for the modern world. These excellent essays look at issues that have long perplexed readers, such as the meaning of marvels, and whether we can read them in earnest or whether they can be appreciated only as play. The different authors bring their expertise to the fore to discuss the development of thoughts on marvels from the classical tradition through the concept's development in the medieval and early modern tradition. This collection is essential reading for any analysis of the marvelous in these periods and the state of scholarship surrounding them.
Author : Bettina Bildhauer
Release : 2017-05-15
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The Monstrous Middle Ages by : Bettina Bildhauer
Download or read book The Monstrous Middle Ages written by Bettina Bildhauer. This book was released on 2017-05-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 ways in which monstrosity shaped the construction of gendered and racial identities, religious symbolism and social prejudice in the Middle Ages. Reading the Middle Ages through its monsters provides an opportunity to view medieval culture from fresh perspectives. It should be of interest in the concept of monstrosity and its significance for medieval cultural production.
