The Monstrous Other: Depictions of the Humanoid Monsters as Representations of the Other in Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts
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The Monstrous Other: Depictions of the Humanoid Monsters as Representations of the Other in Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts
According to the teratologist (that is, the theorist of monstrosity) Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, we can understand a culture by what it calls monstrous; the monster stands for everything a society attempts to cast out.26 Monsters dwell at borders; you might even say the border creates the monster.
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In every culture, the monsters were defeated, usually slain, by heroes whose courage reaffirmed the moral order. The creatures’ wickedness didn’t arise from trauma or poor life choices. Otherness alone was enough.
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