Of Giants: Sex, Monsters, And The Middle Ages (Medieval Cultures)
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Author(s)Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
PublisherUniv Of Minnesota Press
ISBN / ASIN0816632170
ISBN-139780816632176
AvailabilityUsually ships in 24 hours
Sales Rank670,825
CategoryHistory
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
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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.
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