Hybridity, Identity, and Monstrosity in Medieval Britain: On Difficult Middles

by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 140396971X
• ISBN13: 9781403969712
• Release Date: June 2007
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.3"