Hybridity, Identity, and Monstrosity in Medieval Britain - On Difficult Middles

Zusatztext 'Cohen is established as one of the prime researchers on monstrosity! masculinity and postcolonialism in medieval Britain! and the New Middle Ages Series as one of the most inventive in medieval studies...it makes for a riveting - entertaining as well as disconcerting - read about the important and neglected aftermath of 1066.' - TLS Informationen zum Autor JEFFREY JEROME COHEN is Professor of English at George Washington University in Washington DC, USA. Klappentext This study examines the monsters that haunt twelfth-century British texts, arguing that in these strange bodies are expressed fears and fantasies about community, identity and race during the period. Cohen finds the origins of these monsters in a contemporary obsession with blood, both the literal and metaphorical kind. Zusammenfassung This study examines the monsters that haunt twelfth-century British texts! arguing that in these strange bodies are expressed fears and fantasies about community! identity and race during the period. Cohen finds the origins of these monsters in a contemporary obsession with blood! both the literal and metaphorical kind. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: In medias res Acts of Separation: Shaping Communal Bodies Between Belongings: History's Middle In the Borderlands: The Identity of Gerald of Wales City of Catastrophes The Flow of Blood in Norwich Epilogue: In medias res

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Introduction: In medias res Acts of Separation: Shaping Communal Bodies Between Belongings: History's Middle In the Borderlands: The Identity of Gerald of Wales City of Catastrophes The Flow of Blood in Norwich Epilogue: In medias res

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'Cohen is established as one of the prime researchers on monstrosity, masculinity and postcolonialism in medieval Britain, and the New Middle Ages Series as one of the most inventive in medieval studies...it makes for a riveting - entertaining as well as disconcerting - read about the important and neglected aftermath of 1066.' - TLS

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• Authors: J Cohen, J. Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.06.2007
• EAN: 9781403969712
• ISBN: 978-1-4039-6971-2
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: The New Middle Ages; The New Middle Ages
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); B, European History, world history, General & world history, Literature: history & criticism, General and world history, World History, Global and Transnational History, History of Britain and Ireland, Great Britain—History, European Literature, Literary studies: ancient, classical & medieval, Literature—History and criticism, Literary History, Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, British literature, British and Irish Literature, Medieval Literature, Literature, Medieval, History of Medieval Europe, Europe—History—476-1492, European history: medieval period, middle ages