Maps and Monsters in Medieval England
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Bede's Ecclesiastical History
Bede’s Ecclesiastical History
british
Cambridge University Library
Category=D
Category=NH
Category=NHDJ
Corpus Christi College
Counterclockwise
cultural geography
Dragon's Wing
Dragon’s Wing
ebstorf
Ebstorf Map
Ebstorf World Map
eq_bestseller
eq_biography-true-stories
eq_history
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
hereford
Hereford Map
Hereford Mappa Mundi Trust
Hereford Mappamundi
Hereford World Map
Historia Brittonum
Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum
Holy Man
insular identity
liber
Liber Monstrorum
library
manuscript analysis
mappa
marginality studies
medieval cartography
medieval English monster representations
monster theory
monstrorum
monstrous
Monstrous Races
mundi
Opus Dei
Priscian's Grammar
Psalter Map
races
Swamp Thing
Trinity College
Trinity College Cambridge
Trinity College MS
University Library MS
Young Men
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- ISBN 9780415993319
- Weight: 530g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 30 Apr 2008
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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This study centers on issues of marginality and monstrosity in medieval England. In the middle ages, geography was viewed as divinely ordered, so Britain's location at the periphery of the inhabitable world caused anxiety among its inhabitants. Far from the world's holy center, the geographic margins were considered monstrous. Medieval geography, for centuries scorned as crude, is now the subject of several careful studies. Monsters have likewise been the subject of recent attention in the growing field of "monster studies," though few works situate these creatures firmly in their specific historical contexts. This book sits at the crossroads of these two discourses (geography and monstrosity), treated separately in the established scholarship but inseparable in the minds of medieval authors and artists.
