Not since Edward Wood’s Giants and Dwarfs published in 1868 has the subject been the focus of a scholarly study in English. Treating the topic afresh, this volume offers new insights into the …

Published in 1868, Edward Wood’s Giants and Dwarfs is a treasure trove of facts and legends about giants and dwarfs that range from the real to the improbable to the downright impossible.

“And just as we consider Pygmies to be dwarfs, so they consider us giants … And in the land of the Giants, who are larger than we are, we would be considered dwarfs by them.”

Treating the topic afresh, this volume offers new insights into the vogue for giants and dwarfs that flourished in late-medieval and early modern Europe.

Apr 13, 2024 · This introductory chapter provides a broad survey of the ways in which the enthusiasm for giants and dwarfs pervaded European art and culture in the late medieval and …

Apr 13, 2024 · This introductory chapter provides a broad survey of the ways in which the enthusiasm for giants and dwarfs pervaded European art and culture in the late medieval and …

“And just as we consider Pygmies to be dwarfs, so they consider us giants … And in the land of the Giants, who are larger than we are, we would be considered dwarfs by them.” Attributed to …

"Introduction : Giants and Dwarfs as Real, Imagined, and Metaphorical Entities" In Giants and Dwarfs in European Art and Culture, ca. 1350-1750: Real, Imagined, Metaphorical edited by …

Introduction : Giants and Dwarfs as Real, Imagined, and Metaphorical Entities; Part I Northern Climes; 1. Out of Scale: Naming and Identity of Late Medieval Giants; 2. St. Christopher the …

Apr 13, 2024 · Envisioned as primordial ancestors in art, and at the heart of origin stories in epic poetry, giants were ubiquitous in sixteenth-century Europe. Establishing ancestry with giants …

Giants and Dwarfs in European Art and Culture, Ca. 1350-1750 | Not since Edward Wood's Giants and Dwarfs published in 1868 has the subject been the focus of a scholarly study in English. …

Nourished by biblical accounts, classical precedents, and medieval traditions, the cultural interest in giants and dwarfs came of age in the early modern period. In the popular realm, the two …

Mar 16, 2024 · This introductory chapter provides a broad survey of the ways in which the enthusiasm for giants and dwarfs pervaded European art and culture in the late medieval and …

Giants and Dwarfs are the opposed groups of macro- and micro-anthropomorphic beings found in many Indo-European mythologies.

Apr 13, 2024 · Although named after specific giants, the visual properties and attributes of the figures suggested a different identity to late medieval viewers. While described in the texts as …

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Apr 13, 2024 · This essay establishes the importance of giants and dwarfs in the Tyrolean courts and their centrality to Ferdinand's collection, which duly testifies to a shared taste among the …