Charity Urbanski

Medieval Monstrosity (eBook, ePUB)

Imagining the Monstrous in Medieval Europe

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume examines various manifestations and understandings of the concept of monstrosity in medieval Europe c. 500-1500 AD through a collection of contextual chapters and primary sources.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429516153
• Artikelnr.: 68670599

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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