Of Giants: Sex, Monsters, And The Middle Ages by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen

Of Giants: Sex, Monsters, And The Middle Ages

Medieval Cultures #17

Jeffrey Jerome Cohen

260 pages first pub 1999 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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A psychoanalytic look at the representation of monsters, giants and masculinity in medieval texts. The phenomenon of giants and giant-slaying appear in various texts from the Anglo-Saxon to late Middle English period, including Beowulf, The Knight...

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