Our Old Monsters
Subtitle: Witches, Werewolves and Vampires from Medieval Theology to Horror Cinema
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780786476800
Subjects: Horror films, history and criticism; Monsters
Description: "The witch, the vampire and the werewolf endure as popular characters in modern horror. These "old monsters" have their origins in the writings of Aristotle as studied in the universities of medieval Europe, where 13th-century Christian scholars reconciled works of natural philosophy and medicine with theological precepts"--