Monsters in Society: Alterity, Transgression, and the Use of the Past in Medieval Iceland by Rebecca Merkelbach

Monsters in Society: Alterity, Transgression, and the Use of the Past in Medieval Iceland

The Northern Medieval World

Rebecca Merkelbach

253 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction classics history literary medium-paced
Powered by AI (Beta)
Loading...

Description

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...

Read more

Community Reviews

Loading...

Content Warnings

Loading...