Of Giants: Sex, Monsters, And The Middle Ages (Medieval Cultures) by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
Of Giants: Sex, Monsters, And The Middle Ages (Medieval Cultures) by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
English | May 1, 1999 | ISBN: 0816632170 | 258 Pages | PDF | 16 MB
English | May 1, 1999 | ISBN: 0816632170 | 258 Pages | PDF | 16 MB
A psychoanalytic look at the representation of monsters, giants and masculinity in medieval texts. The phenomenon of giants and giant-slaying appear in various texts from the Anglo-Saxon to late Middle English period, including Beowulf, The Knight and the Lion, History of the Kings of Britain and several of Chaucer's books.