Race, Monstrosity, and the Other in Medieval Art
Race, Monstrosity, and the Other in Medieval Art
By Sherry C.M. Lindquist and Asa Simon Mittman
Given at the Morgan Library and Museum on June 8, 2018
Co-curators of the exhibition Medieval Monsters: Terrors, Aliens, Wonders, Sherry C.M. Lindquist, Associate Professor, Western Illinois University and Asa Simon Mittman, Professor, California State University, Chico, will discuss the ways that medieval artists and writers demonized cultural outsiders, transforming religious and racial others into monsters, framing poverty and impairment as sin, and characterizing women as inherently deviant and dangerous. Focusing on medieval manuscripts illuminates the ways that these pernicious strategies are still in use today.
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