‎LARKIN DAVID / TEALE SARAH‎
‎GIANTS‎

‎Giants in the Medieval City‎

‎, Brepols, 2024 Hardback, 272 pages, Size:225 x 280 mm, Illustrations:110 col., Language: English. ISBN 9782503607689.‎

‎Summary The visual landscape north of the Alps between the 14th and 16th centuries was shaped by colossal representations of epic and mythological giants, reincarnated and cast as Christian heroes. In contexts religious or lay, private or public, giants dominated urban spaces but also rural ones. They were painted on church facades and stood tall as sculptures in town squares. Rather than portraying specific characters from particular texts, the figures embodied the notion of ?the gigantic? as it appeared in contemporary writings: superhuman creatures from foreign lands and liminal geographies, often associated with supernatural powers, magic, hypermasculinity, and, concomitantly, matriarchy. Since the naming and identity of these giants do not always correlate--thus destabilizing the images' semiotics--the gap could be filled by fabricated memories of the ancient world. Hence, imagery of giants bridged mythological, biblical, and contemporary times, while producing novel political metaphors. This book explores the role and function of the vision and the experience of the gigantic. Executed ?out of scale? and communicating ideas about excess, giants were experienced as physically and ethically abject and, at the same time, as magnificent, apotropaic, and redemptive; as such they came to embody the very notion of the medieval sublime. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction: Toward a Global Genealogy of Giants Assaf Pinkus Chapter 1: Being a Giant: Geographies and Temporalities Assaf Pinkus Chapter 2: Out of Scale: Experiencing the Gigantic Assaf Pinkus Chapter 3: A Giant in the City: The Protective Roland Assaf Pinkus and Noeit Williger Aviam Chapter 4: Chaos and Order in the Cities: Roland and his Companions Orly Amit Chapter 5: Giants of London Michal Ozeri Chapter 6: The Gigantic as the Late Medieval Sublime: St. Christopher in the Alps Epilogue: More Good then Evil Notes - Bibliography - Index‎

‎Tableau de la Grande-Bretagne, de l’Irlande, et des possessions Angloises dans les quatre parties du monde. Irlande. Instruction, Littérature, Antiquités, etc. [Giants Causeway].‎

‎1802 pp. 373-383, 1 folded (28.5 x 20 cm) engraved plate (‘’Vue occidentale de la Chaussée des Géans, et des Caps voisins’’), disbound (no covers). This is the chapter on Ireland’s antiquities from this 4 volume work, and includes the very fine folded engraved plate of the Giants Causeway. ‎

‎Dolgiy den' velikanov. In Russian /Long Day of the Giants ‎

‎Short description: In Russian. Hux, Peter. Long Day of Giants. Moscow: Det. lit. 1970. The image is provided for reference only. It may reflect condition of one of the available copies or only help in identifying the edition. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKU7051522‎

‎Shagayut velikany. In Russian /Walking Giants ‎

‎Short description: In Russian. Sef, Roman. Walking Giants. Moscow: Detgiz, 1963. The image is provided for reference only. It may reflect condition of one of the available copies or only help in identifying the edition. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKU8408491‎

‎Velikany okeana. In Russian /Ocean Giants ‎

‎"Short description: In Russian. Lviv, Vladimir Nikolaevich. Ocean Giants. Moscow; Leningrad: State Publishing House, 1928 (Moscow: type. Red proletarian ). Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKU9214172"‎