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Hybridity, Identity, and Monstrosity in Medieval Britain - On Difficult Middles (Hardcover, 2007 ed.)
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Hybridity, Identity, and Monstrosity in Medieval Britain - On Difficult Middles (Hardcover, 2007 ed.)
Series: The New Middle Ages
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"Hybridity, Identity and Monstrosity in Medieval Britain" examines
an island made turbulent by conquest and civil war. Focusing upon
history writing, ethnography, and saints' lives, this book details
how community was imagined in the twelfth century; what role the
monsterization of the Welsh, Irish and Jews played in bringing
about English unity; and how writers who found the blood of two
peoples mixed in their bodies struggled to find a vocabulary to
express their identity. Its chapters explores the function and
origin of myths like the unity and separateness of the English, the
barbarism of the Celtic Fringe, the innate desire of Jews to murder
Christian children as part of their Pesach ritual. Populated by
wonders like a tempest formed of blood, a Saracen pope, strange
creatures suspended between the animal and the human, and corpses
animated with uncanny life, "Hybridity, Identity and Monstrosity in
Medieval Britain" maps how collective identities form through
violent exclusions, and details the price paid by those who find
themselves denied the possibility of belonging.
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