TY - BOOK ID - 7521433 TI - Hybridity, identity, and monstrosity in medieval Britain : on difficult middles PY - 2006 SN - 140396971X 9781403969712 134973537X 113708670X PB - New York Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, DB - UniCat KW - Hybridity (Social sciences) KW - Group identity KW - Racism KW - Monsters KW - History KW - Great Britain KW - Ethnic relations KW - Race relations KW - GRANDE-BRETAGNE KW - MONSTRES KW - IDENTITE COLLECTIVE KW - ETHNICITE KW - HISTOIRE KW - 1066-1485 (PERIODE MEDIEVALE) KW - MOYEN AGE KW - ASPECT SOCIAL UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:7521433 AB - This study examines the monsters that haunt twelfth-century British texts, arguing that in these strange bodies are expressed fears and fantasies about community, identity and race during the period. Cohen finds the origins of these monsters in a contemporary obsession with blood, both the literal and metaphorical kind. ER -