Saracens, Demons, and Jews Making Monsters in Medieval Art

Name: Saracens, Demons, and Jews Making Monsters in Medieval Art
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ISBN: 9780691057194

ISBN-10: 0691057192

ISBN-13: 9780691057194

Edition: 2003

Authors: Debra Higgs Strickland

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During the crusades, Ethiopians, Jews, Muslims, and Mongols were branded enemies of the Christian majority. Illustrated with strikingly imaginative and still disturbing images, this book reveals the outrageously pejorative ways these rejected social groups were represented--often as monsters, demons, or freaks of nature. Such monstrous images of non-Christians were not rare displays but a routine aspect of medieval public and private life. These images, which reached a broad and socially varied audience across western Europe, appeared in virtually all artistic media, including illuminated manuscripts, stained glass, sculpture, metalwork, and tapestry. Debra Higgs Strickland introduces and…

Book details

List price: $97.50
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 6/16/2003
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 336
Size: 8.00" wide x 10.00" long x 3.35" tall
Weight: 3.344



Preface


Plates



Making Men Known by Sight: Classical Theories, Monstrous Races, & Sin



Demons, Darkness, & Ethiopians



Christians Imagine Jews



Saracens, Tartars, & Other Crusader Fantasies



Eschatological Conspiracies



Conclusions: What Is a Monster?


Notes


Acknowledgments


Bibliography


Index


Photography Credits