Marvels, monsters, and miracles : studies in the medieval and early modern imaginations / edited by Timothy S. Jones and David A.. Sprunger.
| Other author | Jones, Timothy S. |
| Other author | Sprunger, David A. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Kalamazoo, Mich. : Medieval Institute Publications, 2002. |
| Description | xxv, 306 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Studies in medieval culture ; 62 Studies in medieval culture 62. ^A159963 |
| Contents | The medieval other: the Middle Ages as other / Paul Freedman -- Marvelous peoples or marvelous races? Race and the Anglo-Saxon Wonders of the east / Greta Austin -- Wonders of the Beast: India in classical and medieval literature / Andrea Rossi-Reder -- The book of John Mandeville and the geography of identity / Martin Camargo -- Froissart's "Debate of the horse and the greyhound": companion animals and signs of social status in the fourteenth century / Kristen M. Figg -- The miracle of the lengthened beam in Apocryphal and hagiographic tradition / Thomas N. Hall -- Falling giants and floating lead: scholastic history in the Middle English Cleanness / Michael W. Twomey -- From monster to martyr: the Old English legend of Saint Christopher / Joyce Tally Lionarons -- Fighting men, fighting monsters: outlawry, masculinity, and identity in the Gesta herewardi / Timothy S. Jones -- Monsters of misogyny: Bigorne and Chicheface- suite et fin? / Malcolm Jones -- Depicting the insane: a thirteenth-century case study / David A. Sprunger -- Magic and metafiction in The Franklin's tale: Chaucer's Clerk of Orléans as double of the Franklin / Paul Battles -- Portentous births and the monstrous imagination in Renaissance culture / Norman R. Smith -- The nude cyclops in the costume book / Mary Baine Campbell. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| LCCN | 2002005613 |
| ISBN | 1580440657 |
| ISBN | 1580440665 (pbk.) |