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The margins of medieval manuscripts teem with sirens, satyrs, griffins, unicorns, dragons and other bizarre creatures. Commonplace animals are twisted together in impossible combinations, and human bodies are merged with animal forms in ways that are often both comic and ghastly. Images of these monstrosities pervade art and culture in the Middle Ages, and for medieval pages they must have been a tantalizing suggestion of unknown worlds and unthinkable dangers. But what were they doing there? Were they meaningless distractions, or did these strange beasts have other symbolic meanings? Alixe Bovey's readable text explains the meaning of these monsters and their place in medieval art.
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Alixe Bovey is Curator for the Survey of Illuminated Manuscripts at the British Library.
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- PublisherThe British Library Publishing Division
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 0712347453
- ISBN 13 9780712347457
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages64
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Monsters and Grotesques in Medieval Manuscripts
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