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- What is a monster? - University of Cambridge
Making monsters added value They were commercially lucrative things: oddities, curiosities and rare things were very marketable The market for monstrosity motivated the literal creation of monsters: 'mermaids' were assembled from pieces of fish, monkeys and other objects while 'ray-dragons' were created from carefully mutilated and dried rays
- Monsters - University of Cambridge
Outlaws, trolls and beserkers: meet the hero-monsters of the Icelandic sagas 22 Oct 2015 Rebecca Merkelbach (Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse Celtic) discusses the monstrous heroes of Scandinavian mythology and literature
- Opinion: Frankenstein or Krampus? What our monsters say about us
One of the two monsters set to hit cinemas displays the dangers of hubristic human enterprise (Victor Frankenstein); the other provides a dark embodiment of Christmas-spirit gone awry (Krampus) Such monsters are images that embody the cultural or psychological characteristics that we as a society find difficult to acknowledge
- Spiky monsters: new species of ‘super-armoured’ worm discovered
Spiky monsters: new species of ‘super-armoured’ worm discovered A newly-identified species of spike-covered worm with legs, which lived 500 million years ago, was one of the first animals on Earth to develop armour for protection
- Articles about Monsters - University of Cambridge
Outlaws, trolls and beserkers: meet the hero-monsters of the Icelandic sagas 22 October 2015 Rebecca Merkelbach (Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse Celtic) discusses the monstrous heroes of Scandinavian mythology and literature
- Classical Shorts is a series of films created for schools by Lion TV . . .
series of monsters and mythical creatures, including the Cyclops Polyphemus, the sorceress Circe, and the alluring Sirens Despite these challenges, Odysseus remained determined and inventive, using his intelligence and wit to overcome each obstacle and eventually make his way home
- Massive black hole in the early universe spotted taking a ‘nap’ after . . .
The early universe managed to produce some absolute monsters, even in relatively tiny galaxies ” According to standard models, black holes form from the collapsed remnants of dead stars and accrete matter up to a predicted limit, known as the Eddington limit, where the pressure of radiation on matter overcomes the gravitational pull of the
- folklore - University of Cambridge
What our monsters say about us 04 Dec 2015 Natalie Lawrence (Department of History and Philosophy of
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