The Beauty of Ugliness and the Ugliness of Beauty
Materializing Monstrosity in the Middle Ages
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- Hardcover
159 pages
- Release Date
29 June 2024
Summary
Beauty and ugliness, two extremes that intersect through human experience, remain an inexhaustible source of creative inspiration and popular belief. In ‘The Beauty of Ugliness and the Ugliness of Beauty: Materializing Monstrosity in the Middle Ages,’ the editors aim to redefine the concept of the medieval monster by revisiting issues that have received little attention.
This collection of five essays examines various topics, including:
- The stigmatization of disability i…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9786156696236 |
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| ISBN-10: | 6156696237 |
| Author: | Marcell Sebok, Anna Migdal |
| Publisher: | Trivent Publishing |
| Imprint: | Trivent Medieval |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 159 |
| Release Date: | 29 June 2024 |
| Weight: | 617g |
| Dimensions: | 210mm x 148mm |
| Series: | History and Art |
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About The Author
Marcell Sebok
Anna M. Migdal is a researcher specializing in the history of aesthetics from the perspective of its sociocultural diversity and pragmatic and semantic values, in the visual arts and the iconography of medieval Europe, during approximatively from the late 5th until the late 15th and early 16th centuries. She received her doctorate degree at the University Lumière Lyon II - MOM / Maison de l’Orient et de la Méditerranée Jean Pouilloux after receiving the master graduation at the Institute of Art History at the Jagiellonian University. She was designated “Maître de conférences” (Senior Lecturer) 21st section CNU Paris.
Marcell Sebők is Associate Professor at the Department of Medieval Studies of Central European University, Vienna. His main research areas are late medieval and early modern history of science and collecting, networks and knowledge production.
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