Monsters in Society : : Alterity, Transgression, and the Use of the Past in Medieval Iceland / / Rebecca Merkelbach.
Dragons, giants, and the monsters of learned discourse are rarely encountered in the Sagas of Icelanders, and therefore, the general teratological focus on physical monstrosity yields only limited results when applied to them. This, however, does not equal an absence of monstrosity – it only means t...
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Place / Publishing House: | Kalamazoo, MI : : Medieval Institute Publications, , [2019] ©2020 |
Year of Publication: | 2019 |
Language: | English |
Series: | The Northern Medieval World : On the Margins of Europe
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (VIII, 245 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- 1. Monsters in Context
- 2. Revenants Reconsidered
- 3. Between Hero and Monster – Outlaws
- 4. Nature and Nurture – Berserkir
- 5. Walkers Between Worlds – Practitioners of Magic
- 6. The Social Perception of Monstrosity
- 7. Reading Monstrosity
- Conclusion: Writing a Monstrous Past
- Notes
- Abbreviations
- Bibliography
- Index