Of giants: sex, monsters, and the Middle Ages
Of giants: sex, monsters, and the Middle Ages
Of giants: sex, monsters, and the Middle Ages
Of giants: sex, monsters, and the Middle Ages
Of giants: sex, monsters, and the Middle Ages
Of giants: sex, monsters, and the Middle Ages
A monster lurks at the heart of medieval identity, and this book seeks him out. Reading a set of medieval texts in which giants and dismemberment figure prominently, Jeffrey Jerome Cohen brings a critical psychoanalytic perspective to bear on the question of identity formation-p…
Of giants: sex, monsters, and the Middle Ages
Of giants: sex, monsters, and the Middle Ages
'Chivalry and Romance in Renaissance England' offers a reinterpretation of the place and significance of chivalric culture in the sixteenth and seventeenth-century and explores the implications of this reconfigured interpretation for an understanding of the medieval generally. R…
'Chivalry and Romance in Renaissance England' offers a reinterpretation of the place and significance of chivalric culture in the sixteenth and seventeenth-century and explores the implications of this reconfigured interpretation for an understanding of the medieval generally. R…
Includes information on Arthurian romances, Migel de Cervantes Saavedra, Captain Cox, George Gascoigne, Heraldry, Edward Herbert, Ben Johnson, Francis Kirkman, Gautier de Costes de la Calprenede, Robert Laneham, Sir Thomas Malory, John Marston, William Shakespeare, Sir Philip Si…
Chivalry and Romance in Renaissance England offers a reinterpretation of the place and significance of chivalric culture in the sixteenth and seventeenth-century and explores the implications of this reconfigured interpretation for an understanding of the medieval generally.
Examining the fairies of medieval romance as liminal beings, this book draws on anthropological and philosophical studies of liminality to combine folkloristic insights into the nature of fairies with close readings of selected romance texts. Tracing different meanings and manif…