Animals In The Middle Ages
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Author |
: Nona C. Flores |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 225 |
Release |
: 2016-01-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781135546700 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1135546703 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (00 Downloads) |
Synopsis Animals in the Middle Ages by : Nona C. Flores
These interdisciplinary essays focus on animals as symbols, ideas, or images in medieval art and literature.
Author |
: Joyce E. Salisbury |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 216 |
Release |
: 2012-11-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781135764319 |
ISBN-13 |
: 113576431X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (19 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Beast Within by : Joyce E. Salisbury
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 |
: Kathleen Walker-Meikle |
Publisher |
: Boydell Press |
Total Pages |
: 202 |
Release |
: 2012 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781843837589 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1843837587 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (89 Downloads) |
Synopsis Medieval Pets by : Kathleen Walker-Meikle
An engaging and informative survey of medieval pet keeping which also examines their representation in art and literature.
Author |
: Francis Klingender |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 1039 |
Release |
: 2019-07-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780429557750 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0429557752 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (50 Downloads) |
Synopsis Animals in Art and Thought by : Francis Klingender
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 |
: Elizabeth Morrison |
Publisher |
: Getty Publications |
Total Pages |
: 356 |
Release |
: 2019 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781606065907 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1606065904 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (07 Downloads) |
Synopsis Book of Beasts by : Elizabeth Morrison
A celebration of the visual contributions of the bestiary--one of the most popular types of illuminated books during the Middle Ages--and an exploration of its lasting legacy. Brimming with lively animals both real and fantastic, the bestiary was one of the great illuminated manuscript traditions of the Middle Ages. Encompassing imaginary creatures such as the unicorn, siren, and griffin; exotic beasts including the tiger, elephant, and ape; as well as animals native to Europe like the beaver, dog, and hedgehog, the bestiary is a vibrant testimony to the medieval understanding of animals and their role in the world. So iconic were the stories and images of the bestiary that its beasts essentially escaped from the pages, appearing in a wide variety of manuscripts and other objects, including tapestries, ivories, metalwork, and sculpture. With over 270 color illustrations and contributions by twenty-five leading scholars, this gorgeous volume explores the bestiary and its widespread influence on medieval art and culture as well as on modern and contemporary artists like Pablo Picasso and Damien Hirst. Published to accompany an exhibition on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center May 14 to August 18, 2019.
Author |
: Anselm Oelze |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2018 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9004363629 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9789004363625 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (29 Downloads) |
Synopsis Animal Rationality by : Anselm Oelze
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 |
: László Bartosiewicz |
Publisher |
: Springer Nature |
Total Pages |
: 193 |
Release |
: 2021-02-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783030638887 |
ISBN-13 |
: 303063888X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (87 Downloads) |
Synopsis Medieval Animals on the Move by : László Bartosiewicz
This book investigates relations between humans and animals over several centuries with a focus on the Middle Ages, since important features of our perceptions regarding animals have been rooted in that period. Elucidating various aspects of medieval human-animal relationships requires transdisciplinary discourse, and so this book aims to reconcile the materiality of animals with complex cultural systems illustrating their subtle transitions 'between body and mind'.
Author |
: Susan Crane |
Publisher |
: University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages |
: 281 |
Release |
: 2012-11-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780812206302 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0812206304 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (02 Downloads) |
Synopsis Animal Encounters by : Susan Crane
Traces of the living animal run across the entire corpus of medieval writing and reveal how pervasively animals mattered in medieval thought and practice. In fascinating scenes of cross-species encounters, a raven offers St. Cuthbert a lump of lard that waterproofs his visitors' boots for a whole year, a scholar finds inspiration for his studies in his cat's perfect focus on killing mice, and a dispossessed knight wins back his heritage only to give it up again in order to save the life of his warhorse. Readers have often taken such encounters to be merely figurative or fanciful, but Susan Crane discovers that these scenes of interaction are firmly grounded in the intimate cohabitation with animals that characterized every medieval milieu from palace to village. The animal encounters of medieval literature reveal their full meaning only when we recover the living animal's place within the written animal. The grip of a certain humanism was strong in medieval Britain, as it is today: the humanism that conceives animals in diametrical opposition to humankind. Yet medieval writing was far from univocal in this regard. Latin and vernacular works abound in other ways of thinking about animals that invite the saint, the scholar, and the knight to explore how bodies and minds interpenetrate across species lines. Crane brings these other ways of thinking to light in her readings of the beast fable, the hunting treatise, the saint's life, the bestiary, and other genres. Her substantial contribution to the field of animal studies investigates how animals and people interact in culture making, how conceiving the animal is integral to conceiving the human, and how cross-species encounters transform both their animal and their human participants.
Author |
: Karen L. Edwards |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 385 |
Release |
: 2019-08-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781351603911 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1351603914 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (11 Downloads) |
Synopsis Reading Literary Animals by : Karen L. Edwards
Reading Literary Animals explores the status and representation of animals in literature from the Middle Ages to the present day. Essays by leading scholars in the field examine various figurative, agential, imaginative, ethical, and affective aspects of literary encounters with animality, showing how practices of close reading provoke new ways of thinking about animals and the texts in which they appear. Through investigations of works by Shakespeare, Aphra Behn, William Wordsworth, Charles Dickens, Virginia Woolf, and Ted Hughes, among many others, Reading Literary Animals demonstrates the value of distinctively literary animal studies.
Author |
: Karl Steel |
Publisher |
: Interventions: New Studies Med |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2011 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0814211577 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780814211571 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (77 Downloads) |
Synopsis How to Make a Human by : Karl Steel
How to Make a Human: Animals and Violence in the Middle Ages tracks human attempts to cordon humans off from other life through a wide range of medieval texts and practices, including encyclopedias, dietary guides, resurrection doctrine, cannibal narrative, butchery law, boar-hunting, and teratology. Karl Steel argues that the human subjugation of animals played an essential role in the medieval concept of the human. In their works and habits, humans tried to distinguish themselves from other animals by claiming that humans alone among worldly creatures possess language, reason, culture, and, above all, an immortal soul and resurrectable body. Humans convinced themselves of this difference by observing that animals routinely suffer degradation at the hands of humans. Since the categories of human and animal were both a retroactive and relative effect of domination, no human could forgo his human privileges without abandoning himself. Medieval arguments for both human particularity and the unique sanctity of human life have persisted into the modern age despite the insights of Darwin. How to Make a Human joins with other works in critical animal theory to unsettle human pretensions in the hopes of training humans to cease to project, and to defend, their human selves against other animals.