Holy Monsters, Sacred Grotesques

Monstrosity and Religion in Europe and the United States

Buch | Hardcover

296 Seiten

2018
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-5076-5 (ISBN)

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This book explores the intersection of religion and monstrosity. The first section contains fresh research on the Middle Ages and Early Modern period, and the second explores the topic of religion and monstrosity from the Early Modern to Modern period.

Holy Monsters, Sacred Grotesques examines the intersection of religion and monstrosity in a variety of different time periods in the hopes of addressing two gaps in scholarship within the field of monster studies. The first part of the volume—running from the medieval to the Early Modern period—focuses upon the view of the monster through non-majority voices and accounts from those who were themselves branded as monsters. Overlapping partially with the Early Modern and proceeding to the present day, the contributions of the second part of the volume attempt to problematize the dichotomy of secular/religious through a close look at the monsters this period has wrought.

Michael E. Heyes is assistant professor of religion at Lycoming College.

Introduction: Ecce Monstra
Michael E. Heyes

Part I: Inside the Monster, Looking Out

1. The Woman’s Body, In-Between: The Holy and Monstrous Womb in Medieval Medicine and Religion
Minji Lee
2. Miracles and Monsters: Gog and Magog, Alexander the Great, and Antichrist in the Apocalypse of the Catalan Atlas (1375)
Thomas S. Franke
3. Dressing Monstrous Men: Landsknechte Clothing in Some Early Modern Danish Church Wall Paintings
John Block Friedman
4. Twelfth Night’s “poor monster:” Viola/Cesario as Holy Grotesque
Cathleen McKague
5. Grotesques in Sacred Spaces: The Cappella dei Priori and the Cappella del Quartiere di Leone X in the Palazzo Vecchio
Susanne Margarit McColeman

Part II: Monstrous Modernity

6. Monstrous Sovereignty and the Corrupt Body Politic in Richard III and The Duchess of Malfi
John W. Ellis-Etchison
7. Reform and Romance: Catholic Monstrosity in Antebellum U.S. Fiction
AnaMaria Seglie
8. Lovecraft’s Things: Sinister Souvenirs from Other Worlds
Jeffrey Andrew Weinsto

Erscheinungsdatum	25.08.2018
Co-Autor	Linda C. Ceriello, Thomas S. Franke, John Block Friedman, John W. Ellis-Etchison
Zusatzinfo	20 b/w photos;
Sprache	englisch
Maße	157 x 242 mm
Gewicht	562 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
ISBN-10	1-4985-5076-2 / 1498550762
ISBN-13	978-1-4985-5076-5 / 9781498550765
Zustand	Neuware