%0 Book %1 JBF_mr %A Friedman, John Block %C Cambridge/London %D 1981 %K monster %T The monstrous races in Medieval art and thought

@book{JBF_mr, added-at = {2013-05-28T10:31:09.000+0200}, address = {Cambridge/London}, annotation = {Zahlreiche Abbildungen. Aus der Einleitung: »I call them ›montrous‹ because that is their most common description in the Middle Ages. But many of these peoples were not monstrous at all. They simply differed in physical appearance and social practices from the person describing them.« (1) »The monstrous races were always far away, in India, Ethiopia, Albania, or Cathay, places whose outlines were vague to the medieval mind but whose names evoked mystery. As geographical knowledge grew, and the existence of many of these races began to appear unlikely, they were shifted to regions less well known--in the Far North and ultimately in the New World.« (1) »The medieval taste for the exotic was in some ways comparable to our \textit{National Geographic} interest in primitive and colorful societies today. However, the very concept of a ›primitive‹ society as one at an earlier stage of cultural evolution was not a part of the medieval // world view. On the contrary, exotic peoples were often seen as degenerate of fallen from an earlier state of grace in the Judeo-Christian tradition; even their humanity was questioned. Curious customs and appearance suggested to the medieval mind an equally curious spiritual condition.« (1f.) »The Renaissance brought to my subject such different conceptions of man and cosmology that it seemed appropriate to take the beginning of the age of discovery as a natural stopping point [\,\ldots{}].« (4)}, author = {Friedman, {John Block}}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/279423d9aa8fa975d02894a20e8c5bbf6/mio}, gender = {sm}, interhash = {e837dd9700aad8db91954c0d1a11b27b}, intrahash = {79423d9aa8fa975d02894a20e8c5bbf6}, keywords = {monster}, timestamp = {2013-05-28T10:31:42.000+0200}, title = {The monstrous races in Medieval art and thought}, year = 1981 }