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Article: The Monstrous Races in Medieval Art.(Review)
- Article from:
- Utopian Studies
- Article date:
- January 1, 2001
- Author:
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John Block Friedman. The Monstrous Races in Medieval Art. Syracuse: Syracuse UP, 2000. 207 pp. $29.95.
THE REASONS FOR THIS PAPERBACK REPRINT of a study first published in 1981 are easily understood. Professor John Block Friedman then offered a learned and wide-ranging investigation into how monstrous races were characterized and used from the times of ancient Greece and Rome to the sixteenth century. His study exploits a formidable body of materials: illuminated manuscripts from a large variety of repositories; maps; classical and scholastic texts; sculpture and mural paintings; early travellers' tales and fables. This vast array of evidence is clearly ordered, ...
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