ML100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Concubinage, Brynhildr, Notre Dame De Paris
Document Summary
They were different from the norms that were set: the end of time, a world surrounded by dark and shadows. Interest in genealogy: descendent of cain or ham, grendel is from a christian community. Origins of medieval monsters: question of good or bad, monstrous races, anglo-saxons, marvels of the east, c. 970-1150, pliny the elder, d. 75, the natural history, catalogue of all the monstrous races. What made the monsters monstrous: deformities, size, location, grendel. Lived outside the borders of civilization: urban inheritance from rome, monsters made from different parts of animals, early christianity, the spiritual city. Jews, muslims: question of body and soul, monsters reflect their anxieties which is the souls. Depictions of monsters: naked, sign of wildness or bestiality because like animals they don"t wear clothes, weapons, club- sign of monstrosity. A civilized person would have a sword.
