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Article: The Monstrous Middle Ages.(Book review)
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- The Modern Language Review
- Article date:
- April 1, 2006
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The Monstrous Middle Ages. Ed. by Bettina Bildhauer and Robert Mills. Cardiff: University of Wales Press. 2003. xiv+236 pp. 16.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-7083-1822-3.
This is a collection of nine essays, preceded by an introduction by the editors and followed by a very useful set of annotated suggestions for further reading (although a bibliography including the works cited in the various articles would also have been useful).The nine essays first saw the light, for the most part, as papers delivered at a symposium on 'Medieval Horror' at Pembroke College, Cambridge, in 1999 and in a series of sessions on 'The Monstrous Middle Ages' at the International ...