Parution : Robin O’Bryan, Felicia Else (eds), « Giants and Dwarfs in European Art and Culture, ca. 1350-1750. Real, Imagined, Metaphorical », Amsterdam, Amsterdam University Press, 2024
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 vogue for giants and dwarfs that flourished in late-medieval and early modern Europe. From chapters dealing with the real dwarfs and giants in the royal and princely courts, to the imaginary giants and dwarfs that figured in the crafting of nationalistic and ancestral traditions,...