Medieval Bestiaries : New Approaches /

Medieval Bestiaries : New Approaches /

What could the phoenix, elephant, and spider teach medieval people, and what can they teach us now about human - animal relationships? Medieval Bestiaries: New Approaches offers innovative insights on questions previously unasked about a most popular type of illuminated manuscript, whose animal pict...

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Other Authors: Strickland, Debra Higgs (Editor)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2025.

Series: Late Antiquity and Medieval Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2025.
Reading Medieval Sources ; 9.

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Art History.
Jewish Studies.

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Call Number: N5305

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Table of Contents:
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of Figures
  • Abbreviations
  • Notes on Contributors
  • 11 Introduction
  •   Debra Higgs Strickland
  • 12 Translanguaging and Multimediality in Philippe de Thaon's Medieval 'French' Bestiaire
  •   Emma Campbell
  • 13 The Missing Jewish Bestiary: Animals as "Good to Think with" in Art Made for (and Sometimes by) Medieval Jews
  •   Marc M. Epstein
  • 14 Virtuous Beasts: the Bestiary in a Sixteenth-Century French Manuscript (BnF Ms. Fr. 1877)
  •   Larisa Grollemond
  • 15 Unfixed Stars: Engaging Animals in the Islamic History of the Book
  •   Rebecca Hill
  • 16 Tail Wagging the Dog? Illuminating and Writing the Bestiary
  •   Elizabeth Morrison
  • 17 Phoenician Ontology and the Art of Species, or Jean de Meun Rewrites the Bestiary
  •   Julie Orlemanski
  • 18 Ecocriticism and Enormous Animals in the Second Family Bestiary
  •   Alexandra Paddock
  • 19 Insects in and around the Bestiaries
  •   Debra Higgs Strickland
  • 20 Afterword
  •   Erica Fudge
  • Index.