Monsters and Grotesques in Medieval Manuscripts

by Alixe Bovey

The margins of medieval manuscripts teem with sirens, satyrs, griffins, unicorns, dragons and other bizarre creatures. Commonplace animals are twisted together in impossible combinations, and human bodies are merged with animal forms in ways that are often both comic and ghastly. Images of these monstrosities pervade art and culture in the Middle Ages, and for medieval people they must have been a tantalizing suggestion of unknown worlds and unthinkable...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802085121
• ISBN13: 9780802085122
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 7.0" x 9.8"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher