This study centers on issues of marginality and monstrosity in
medieval England. In the middle ages, geography was viewed as
divinely ordered, so Britain's location at the periphery of the
inhabitable world caused anxiety among its inhabitants. Far from
the world's holy center, the geographic margins were considered
monstrous. Medieval geography, for centuries scorned as crude, is
now the subject of several careful studies. Monsters have likewise
been the subject of recent attention in the growing field of
"monster studies," though few works situate these creatures firmly
in their specific historical contexts. This book sits at the
crossroads of these two discourses (geography and monstrosity),
treated separately in the established scholarship but inseparable
in the minds of medieval authors and artists.
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