Hybridity, Identity, and Monstrosity in Medieval Britain: On Difficult Middles /

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 a...

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Main Author:	Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome (Author)
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
Series:	New Middle Ages.
Subjects:	Literature. British and Irish Literature. History of Britain and Ireland. History of Medieval Europe. Literary History. Medieval Literature. World History, Global and Transnational History. British literature. Literature > History and criticism. Literature, Medieval. World history. Europe > History-476-1492. Great Britain > History. Electronic books.
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