Beauty of Ugliness and the Ugliness of Beauty

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 the medieval Europe, during approximatively from the late 5th until the late 15th and early 16th centuries. She received her doctorate degree at the University Lumie?re Lyon II - MOM / Maison de l'Orient et de la Me?diterrane?e Jean Pouilloux after receiving the master graduation at the Institute of Art History at the Jagiellonian University. She was designated "Maître de conférances"" (Senior Lecturer) 21st section CNU Paris.Marcell Seb?k 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.

• Introduction by Anna M. Migdal and Marcell Seb?kChapter 1. (Un)Acceptable Disability? Defectus Corporis, Scandalum, and Pontifical Grace -Ninon DubourgChapter 2. A Distorted Image of the Woman. Some Remarks on the Visual Semiotics of the Monster in Medieval Imagery (Image féminine difforme. Sur la sémiotique visuelle du monstre dans l'imagerie médiévale) - Anna M. MigdalChapter 3. The Monster Within: Death, Disease and Demons in the Holkham Bible Picture Book - Lacy GilletteChapter 4. Trading in Beauty and Ugliness on the Medieval Marriage Market - Federica BoldriniChapter 5. Nature vs. Nurture in the Monstrosity of English Books that Mark the End of an Era: Frankenstein and Beowulf - Cassandra Ruiz