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Rebecca Merkelbach - Monsters in Society, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

Monsters in Society

Alterity, Transgression, and the Use of the Past in Medieval Iceland

Av Rebecca Merkelbach

Del i serien Northern Medieval World: On the Margins of Europe

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Employingliterary and cultural theory as well as anthropological and historicalapproaches, Social Monstrosity and theSagas of the Icelanders  reads themonsters of the Íslendingasögur intheir literary and socio-cultural context, demonstrating that they are notdistractions from feud and conflict, but that they are in fact an intrinsicpart of the genre’s re-imagining of the past for the needs of the present.
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Rebecca Merkelbach is a postdoctoral fellow in Scandinavian Studies at the University of Tübingen, Germany.

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