The Monstrous Races In Medieval Art And Thought
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The Monstrous Races In Medieval Art And Thought
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Author : John Block Friedman
language : en
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Release Date : 2000-06-01
The Monstrous Races In Medieval Art And Thought written by John Block Friedman and has been published by Syracuse University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-06-01 with History categories.
Beyond the boundaries of the known Christian world during the Middle Ages, there were alien cultures that intrigued, puzzled, and sometimes frightened the people of Europe. The reports of travelers in Africa and Asia revealed that "monstrous" races of men lived there, whose appearance and customs were quite different from the European norm. This book examines the impact of these races upon Western art, literature, and philosophy, from their earliest mention until the age of exploration. Friedman furnishes a descriptive catalog of the races, most of which were real, geographically remote peoples, some of which were fabled creatures that served as symbols. He traces the evolution of European attitudes toward them, with particular emphasis on the high Middle Ages, when they seem most strongly to have captured the Western imagination. Ranging through literature, the arts, cartography, canon law, and theology, he considers the widely varying ways in which Christians viewed and depicted strange races of men. Finally, he examines transformations in European consciousness brought about by the discoveries of the exotic peoples of the Americas. Whatever their form—pygmy, giant, hirsute cave—dweller, cyclops, or Amazon-the monstrous races clearly challenged the traditional concept of man in the Christian world scheme. It is the medieval thinking about this challenge that Mr. Friedman addresses in this revealing account.
The Monstrous Races In Medieval Art And Thought
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Author : John Block Friedman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994
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Monstrous Races In Medieval Art
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Author : John Friedman
language : en
Publisher:
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Saracens Demons Jews
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Author : Debra Higgs Strickland
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2003
Saracens Demons Jews written by Debra Higgs Strickland and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Art categories.
These images, which reached a broad and socially varied audience across Western Europe, appeared in virtually all artistic media, including illuminated manuscripts, stained glass, sculpture, metalwork, and tapestry.".
The Monstrous Middle Ages
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Author : Bettina Bildhauer
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2003-01-01
The Monstrous Middle Ages written by Bettina Bildhauer and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-01-01 with History categories.
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 which monstrosity shaped the construction of gender and sexual identity, 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. The Monstrous Middle Ages will be essential reading for anyone interested in the concept of monstrosity and its significance for both medieval cultural production and contemporary critical practice.
The Ashgate Research Companion To Monsters And The Monstrous
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Author : Asa Simon Mittman
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-02-24
The Ashgate Research Companion To Monsters And The Monstrous written by Asa Simon Mittman and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-24 with Literary Criticism categories.
The field of monster studies has grown significantly over the past few years and this companion provides a comprehensive guide to the study of monsters and the monstrous from historical, regional and thematic perspectives. The collection reflects the truly multi-disciplinary nature of monster studies, bringing in scholars from literature, art history, religious studies, history, classics, and cultural and media studies. The companion will offer scholars and graduate students the first comprehensive and authoritative review of this emergent field.
Classic Readings On Monster Theory
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Author : Asa Simon Mittman
language : en
Publisher: ARC Reference
Release Date : 2020-04-30
Classic Readings On Monster Theory written by Asa Simon Mittman and has been published by ARC Reference this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-30 with Art categories.
Companion volumes Classic Readings on Monster Theoryand Primary Sources on Monstersgather a wide range of readings and sources to enable us to see and understand what monsters can show us about what it means to be human. The first volume introduces important modern theorists of the monstrous and aims to provide interpretive tools and strategies for students to use to grapple with the primary sources in the second volume, which brings together some of the most influential and indicative monster narratives from the West.
A Distinction Of Stories
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Author : Judson Boyce Allen
language : en
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Release Date : 1981
A Distinction Of Stories written by Judson Boyce Allen and has been published by Ohio State University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature categories.
The Invention Of Race In The European Middle Ages
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Author : Geraldine Heng
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-03-08
The Invention Of Race In The European Middle Ages written by Geraldine Heng and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-08 with History categories.
This book challenges the common belief that race and racisms are phenomena that began only in the modern era.
Images Of The Medieval Peasant
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Author : Paul H. Freedman
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 1999
Images Of The Medieval Peasant written by Paul H. Freedman and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with History categories.
The medieval clergy, aristocracy, and commercial classes tended to regard peasants as objects of contempt and derision. In religious writings, satires, sermons, chronicles, and artistic representations peasants often appeared as dirty, foolish, dishonest, even as subhuman or bestial. Their lowliness was commonly regarded as a natural corollary of the drudgery of their agricultural toil. Yet, at the same time, the peasantry was not viewed as “other” in the manner of other condemned groups, such as Jews, lepers, Muslims, or the imagined “monstrous races” of the East. Several crucial characteristics of the peasantry rendered it less clearly alien from the elite perspective: peasants were not a minority, their work in the fields nourished all other social orders, and, most important, they were Christians. In other respects, peasants could be regarded as meritorious by virtue of their simple life, productive work, and unjust suffering at the hands of their exploitive social superiors. Their unrewarded sacrifice and piety were also sometimes thought to place them closest to God and more likely to win salvation. This book examines these conflicting images of peasants from the post-Carolingian period to the German Peasants’ War. It relates the representation of peasants to debates about how society should be organized (specifically, to how human equality at Creation led to subordination), how slavery and serfdom could be assailed or defended, and how peasants themselves structured and justified their demands. Though it was argued that peasants were legitimately subjugated by reason of nature or some primordial curse (such as that of Noah against his son Ham), there was also considerable unease about how the exploitation of those who were not completely alien—who were, after all, Christians—could be explained. Laments over peasant suffering as expressed in the literature might have a stylized quality, but this book shows how they were appropriated and shaped by peasants themselves, especially in the large-scale rebellions that characterized the late Middle Ages.