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Description: Saracens, Demons, and Jews: Making Monsters in Medieval Art
THROUGH THEIR COMBINATION of abnormal physical form and uncivilized activities, Monstrous Races expressed ideas about sin and barbarity. Demons, by contrast, transcend the realms of sin and barbarity to embody concepts more abstract and fundamental to Christian belief. That is, demons represent an attempt to...
PublisherPrinceton University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.61-93
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00183.004
Description: The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume II: From the Early Christian Era to...
The civilization of western Europe, like that of Byzantium and Islam, is at least in part a heritage from antiquity, but between the fifth and the ninth centuries Europe did not put this inheritance to use in the same way its neighbors did. As we shall see, differences in the total historical situation explain in large measure the wide range of attitudes with regard to the problems we are about to...
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PublisherHarvard University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.31-72
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00139.005

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