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Saints and Monsters in Medieval French and Occitan Literature: Sublime and Abject Bodies

Saints and Monsters in Medieval French and Occitan Literature: Sublime and Abject Bodies

Grange, Huw

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Series: Research Monographs in French Studies, Book 53

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 1781884900
ISBN13: 9781781884904
Publisher: Legenda
Published: Sep 28 2018
Pages: 140
Weight: 0.52
Height: 0.30 Width: 6.69 Depth: 9.61
Language: English

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.

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