Hybridity, Identity, and Monstrosity in Medieval Britain: On Difficult Middles (The New Middle Ages)

by J. Cohen (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2007

  $144.32

  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.