Saints and Monsters in Medieval French and Occitan Literature

Sublime and Abject Bodies

von Huw Grange

140 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

From rubbery martyrs to wraith-like ascetics, and from pestilential dragons to troublesome giants, the bodies that fascinated audiences of saints' lives during the Middle Ages increasingly inform theoretical debates in medieval studies concerning corporeality. Saints and Monsters draws on notions of the 'sublime' and the 'abject' to explore the role played by these holy and unholy bodies in community formation. Examining a series of biographies of Sts Margaret, George, Honorat and Enimia - some of them previously unknown to scholarship - Huw Grange argues that the extraordinary bodies of medieval French and Occitan hagiography mutate in relation to a range of shifting historical, cultural and geographical imperatives.Huw Grange is Junior Research Fellow in French at Jesus College, Oxford.

• Reihe: Research Monographs in French Studies
• Themen: Biographie, Literatur und Literaturwissenschaft Geschichte und Kritik Literaturwissenschaft, allgemein Antike, Klassik, Mittelalter
• ISBN: 9781781884904
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 28.09.2018
• Größe: 244 x 170 mm
• Verlag: Legenda