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Holy Monsters, Sacred Grotesques examines the intersection of religion and monstrosity in a variety of different time periods in the hopes of addressing two gaps in scholarship within the field of monster studies. The first part of the volume—running from the medieval to the Early Modern period—focuses upon the view of the monster through non-majority voices and accounts from those who were themselves branded as monsters. Overlapping partially with the Early Modern and proceeding to the present day, the contributions of the second part of the volume attempt to problematize the dichotomy of secular/religious through a close look at the monsters this period has wrought.
Michael E. Heyes is assistant professor of religion at Lycoming College.
Introduction: Ecce MonstraMichael E. HeyesPart I: Inside the Monster, Looking Out1. The Woman’s Body, In-Between: The Holy and Monstrous Womb in Medieval Medicine and ReligionMinji Lee2. Miracles and Monsters: Gog and Magog, Alexander the Great, and Antichrist in the Apocalypse of the Catalan Atlas (1375)Thomas S. Franke3. Dressing Monstrous Men: Landsknechte Clothing in Some Early Modern Danish Church Wall PaintingsJohn Block Friedman4. Twelfth Night’s “poor monster:” Viola/Cesario as Holy GrotesqueCathleen McKague5. Grotesques in Sacred Spaces: The Cappella dei Priori and the Cappella del Quartiere di Leone X in the Palazzo VecchioSusanne Margarit McColemanPart II: Monstrous Modernity6. Monstrous Sovereignty and the Corrupt Body Politic in Richard III and The Duchess of MalfiJohn W. Ellis-Etchison7. Reform and Romance: Catholic Monstrosity in Antebellum U.S. Fiction AnaMaria Seglie 8. Lovecraft’s Things: Sinister Souvenirs from Other WorldsJeffrey Andrew Weinsto
This ambitious volume questions the nature of religion and secularity in relation to and embodied by the figure of the monster, addressing gaps in current conversation both in its attention to the sacred, and in its range from the medieval to the modern.
