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Of Giants

MEDIEVAL CULTURES

SERIES EDITORS

Rita Copeland

Barbara A. Hanawalt

David Wallace

Sponsored by the Center for Medieval Studies

at the University of Minnesota

Volumes in the series study the diversity of medieval cultural histories and

practices, including such interrelated issues as gender, class, and social hierar-

chies,- race and ethnicity,- geographical relations; definitions of political space;

discourses of authority and dissent; educational institutions,- canonical and non-

canonical literatures; and technologies of textual and visual literacies.

VOLUME 17

Jeffrey Jerome Cohen

Of Giants: Sex, Monsters, and the Middle Ages

VOLUME 16

Edited by Barbara A. Hanawalt and David Wallace

Medieval Crime and Social Control

VOLUME 15

Kathryn Kerby-Fulton and Denise L. Despres

Iconography and the Professional Reader: The Politics of Book Production

in the Douce "Piers Plowman "

VOLUME 14

Edited by Marilynn Desmond

Christine de Pizan and the Categories of Difference

VOLUME 13

Alfred Thomas

Anne's Bohemia: Czech Literature and Society, 1310-1420

VOLUME 12

Edited by F. R. R Akehurst and Stephanie Cain Van D'Elden

The Stranger in Medieval Society

VOLUME 11

Edited by Karma Lochrie, Peggy McCracken, and James A. Schultz

Constructing Medieval Sexuality

VOLUME 10

Claire Sponsler

Drama and Resistance: Bodies, Goods, and Theatricality in

Late Medieval England

For other books in the series, see p. 236

Of Giants

Sex, Monsters, and the Middle Ages

Jeffrey Jerome Cohen

Medieval Cultures

Volume 17

University of Minnesota Press

Minneapolis

London

An earlier version of chapter 3 appeared as "Decapitation and Coming of

Age/' in The Arthurian Yearbook, III (1993); reprinted with permission of

The Arthurian Yearbook. A portion of chapter 4 originally appeared as

"Diminishing Masculinity in Chaucer's Tale of Sir Thopas," in Masculinities

in Chaucer, edited by Peter G. Beidler (Suffolk: Boydell & Brewer, 1998);

reprinted with permission of Boydell & Brewer. A portion of chapter 5

originally appeared as "Gowther among the Dogs," in Becoming Male in the

Middle Ages, edited by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and Bonnie Wheeler (New York:

reprinted with permission of Garland Publishing, Inc.

retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic,

mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written

permission of the publisher.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome.

Of giants : sex, monsters, and the Middle Ages / Jeffrey Jerome

Cohen.

p. cm. — (Medieval cultures ; v. 17)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 0-8166-3216-2 (he). — ISBN 0-8166-3217-0 (pbk.)

1. English literature —Middle English, 1100-1500—History and

criticism. 2. Giants in literature. 3. English literature—Old

English, ca. 450-1100 — History and criticism. 4. Psychoanalysis and

literature—England—History—To 1500. 5. Literature and folklore —

England—History—To 1500. 6. Romances, English — History and

criticism. 7. Difference (Psychology) in literature.

8. Abnormalities, Human, in literature. 9. Monsters in literature.

10. Sex in literature. I. Title. II. Series.

PR275.G47C64

1999

820.9'37 —dc21

98-53479

Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper

The University of Minnesota is an equal-opportunity educator and employer.

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