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Hybridity, Identity, and Monstrosity in Medieval Britain

On Difficult Middles

Palgrave Macmillan

Part of the book series: The New Middle Ages (TNMA)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
  2. Introduction: In Medias Res

    • Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
    Pages 1-10
  3. Acts of Separation: Shaping Communal Bodies

    • Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
    Pages 11-42
  4. Between Belongings: History’s Middles

    • Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
    Pages 43-76
  5. In the Borderlands: The Identities of Gerald of Wales

    • Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
    Pages 77-108
  6. City of Catastrophes

    • Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
    Pages 109-138
  7. The Flow of Blood in Norwich

    • Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
    Pages 139-173
  8. Epilogue: In Medias Res

    • Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
    Pages 175-177
  9. Back Matter

    Pages 179-256

About this book

This study examines the monsters that haunt twelfth-century British texts, arguing that in these strange bodies are expressed fears and fantasies about community, identity and race during the period. Cohen finds the origins of these monsters in a contemporary obsession with blood, both the literal and metaphorical kind.

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'Cohen is established as one of the prime researchers on monstrosity, masculinity and postcolonialism in medieval Britain, and the New Middle Ages Series as one of the most inventive in medieval studies...it makes for a riveting - entertaining as well as disconcerting - read about the important and neglected aftermath of 1066.' - TLS

About the author

JEFFREY JEROME COHEN is Professor of English at George Washington University in Washington DC, USA.

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