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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 study 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.
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.
First full collection on the seven most significant English mappae
mundi from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Mappae mundi (maps
of the world), beautiful objects in themselves, offer huge insights
into how medieval scholars conceived the world and their place
within it. They are a fusion of "real" geographical locations with
fantastical, geographic, historical, legendary and theological
material. Their production reached its height in England in the
twelfth and thirteenth centuries, with such well-known examples as
the Hereford map, the maps of Matthew Paris, and the Vercelli map.
This volume provides a comprehensive Companion to the seven most
significant English mappae mundi. It begins with a survey of the
maps' materials, types, shapes, sources, contents,
conventions,idiosyncrasies, commissioners and users, moving on to
locate the maps' creation and use in the realms of medieval
rhetoric, Victorine memory theory and clerical pedagogy. It also
establishes the shared history of map and book making, and
demonstrates how pre-and post-Conquest monastic libraries in
Britain fostered and fed their complementary relationship. A
chapter is then devoted to each individual map. An annotated
bibliography of multilingual resourcescompletes the volume. DAN
TERKLA is Emeritus Professor of English at Illinois Wesleyan
University; NICK MILLEA is Map Librarian, Bodleian Library,
University of Oxford. Contributors: Nathalie Bouloux, Michelle
Brown. Daniel Connolly, Helen Davies, Gregory Heyworth, Alfred
Hiatt, Marcia Kupfer, Nick Millea, Asa Simon Mittman, Dan Terkla,
Chet Van Duzer.
The practice and the representation of flaying in the middle ages
and after are considered in this provocative collection. Skin is
the parchment upon which identity is written; class, race,
ethnicity, and gender are all legible upon the human surface.
Removing skin tears away identity, and leaves a blank slate upon
which law, punishment, sanctity, ormonstrosity can be inscribed;
whether as an act of penal brutality, as a comic device, or as a
sign of spiritual sacrifice, it leaves a lasting impression about
the qualities and nature of humanity. Flaying often functioned as
animaginative resource for medieval and early modern artists and
writers, even though it seems to have been rarely practiced in
reality. From images of Saint Bartholomew holding his skin in his
arms, to scenes of execution in Havelok the Dane, to laws that
prescribed it as a punishment for treason, this volume explores the
idea and the reality of skin removal - flaying - in the Middle
Ages. It interrogates the connection between reality and
imagination in depictions of literal skin removal, rather than
figurative or theoretical interpretations of flaying, and offers a
multilayered view of medieval and early modern perceptions of
flaying and its representations in Europeanculture. Its two parts
consider practice and representation, capturing the evolution of
flaying as both an idea and a practice in the premodern world.
Larissa Tracy is Associate Professor, Longwood University.
Contributors: Frederika Bain, Peter Dent, Kelly DeVries, Valerie
Gramling, Perry Neil Harrison, Jack Hartnell, Emily Leverett,
Michael Livingston, Sherry C.M. Lindquist, Asa Mittman, Mary
Rambaran-Olm, William Sayers, Christine Sciacca, Susan Small,
Larissa Tracy, Renée Ward
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