Author : Nona C. Flores
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 27,41 MB
Release : 2016-01-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1135546703
These interdisciplinary essays focus on animals as symbols, ideas, or images in medieval art and literature.
Author : Kathleen Walker-Meikle
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 41,67 MB
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 1843837587
An engaging and informative survey of medieval pet keeping which also examines their representation in art and literature.
Author : Joyce E. Salisbury
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 48,78 MB
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 113576431X
Praise for the first edition: "...a brave and fascinating exploration of an area that has so far been rather neglected by both historical and literary critics. The Beast Within provides extremely valuable information on the legal and cultural background of the human-animal relationship..." -- Studies in the Age of Chaucer This important book offers a unique exploration of the use of and attitude towards animals from the 4th to the 14th centuries. The Beast Within explores the varying roles of animals as property, food and sexual objects, and the complex relationship that this created with the people and world around them. Joyce E. Salisbury takes an interdisciplinary approach to the subject, weaving a historical narrative that includes economic, legal, theological, literary and artistic sources. The book shows how by the end of the Middle Ages the lines between humans and animals had blurred completely, making us recognise the beast that lay within us all. This new edition has been brought right up to date with current scholarship, and includes a brand new chapter on animals on trial and animals as human companions, as well as expanded and updated discussions on fables and saints, and a new section on ‘bestial humans’. This important and provocative book remains a key work on the historical study of animals, as well as in the field of environmental history more generally, and also provides crucial context to ongoing debates on animal rights and the environment.
Author : Francis Klingender
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1039 pages
File Size : 30,41 MB
Release : 2019-07-02
Category : History
ISBN : 0429557752
Originally published in 1971, Animals in Art and Thought discusses the ways in which animals have been used by man in art and literature. The book looks at how they have been used to symbolise religious, social and political beliefs, as well as their pragmatic use by hunters, sportsmen, and farmers. The book discusses these various attitudes in a survey which ranges from prehistoric cave art to the later Middle Ages. The book is especially concerned with uncovering the latent, as well as the manifest meanings of animal art, and presents a detailed examination of the literary and archaeological monuments of the periods covered in the book. The book discusses the themes of Creation myths of the pagan and Christian religion, the contribution of the animal art of the ancient contribution of the animal art of the ancient Orient to the development of the Romanesque and gothic styles in Europe, the use of beast fables in social or political satire, and the heroic associations of animals in medieval chivalry.
Author : Anselm Oelze
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 33,96 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Animal intelligence
ISBN : 9789004363625
In Animal Rationality: Later Medieval Theories 1250-1350, Anselm Oelze offers the first comprehensive and systematic exploration of theories of animal rationality in the later Middle Ages. Traditionally, it was held that medieval thinkers ascribed rationality to humans while denying it to nonhuman animals. As Oelze shows, this narrative fails to capture the depth and diversity of the medieval debate. Although many thinkers, from Albert the Great to John Buridan, did indeed hold that nonhuman animals lack rational faculties, some granted them the ability to engage in certain rational processes such as judging, reasoning, or employing prudence. There is thus a whole spectrum of positions to be discovered, many of which show interesting parallels with contemporary theories of animal rationality.
Author : Dominic Alexander
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 14,75 MB
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 1843833948
A thorough investigation of the saint and animal topos: its origins, growth and development.
Author : Nona C. Flores
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 21,83 MB
Release : 2016-01-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1135546770
These interdisciplinary essays focus on animals as symbols, ideas, or images in medieval art and literature.
Author : Hannele Klemettilä
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 46,49 MB
Release : 2015-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1317551907
This book explores views of the natural world in the late Middle Ages, especially as expressed in Livre de chasse (Book of the Hunt), the most influential hunting book of the era. It shows that killing and maiming, suffering and the death of animals were not insignificant topics to late medieval men, but constituted a complex set of issues, and could provoke very contradictory thoughts and feelings that varied according social and cultural milieus and particular cases and circumstances.
Author : Alison Langdon
Publisher : Springer
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 20,77 MB
Release : 2018-02-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3319718975
The essays in this interdisciplinary volume explore language, broadly construed, as part of the continued interrogation of the boundaries of human and nonhuman animals in the Middle Ages. Uniting a diverse set of emerging and established scholars, Animal Languages questions the assumed medieval distinction between humans and other animals. The chapters point to the wealth of non-human communicative and discursive forms through which animals function both as vehicles for human meaning and as agents of their own, demonstrating the significance of human and non-human interaction in medieval texts, particularly for engaging with the Other. The book ultimately considers the ramifications of deconstructing the medieval anthropocentric view of language for the broader question of human singularity.
Author : Willene B. Clark
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 44,80 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9780851156828
'The Bestiary' is a book of animals. The 'Second-family' bestiary is the most important version. This study addresses the work's purpose and audience. It includes a critical edition and new English translation, and a catalogue raisonne of the manuscripts.
