Animals in the Middle Ages

Erscheinungsjahr 2000
ISBN: 978-0-415-92893-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)

Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 139 mm x 215 mm, Gewicht: 227 g

Reihe: Routledge Medieval Casebooks

These interdisciplinary essays focus on animals as symbols, ideas, or images in medieval art and literature.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Flores, Nona C

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Geschichte des Judentums
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Künstlerische Stoffe, Motive, Themen Künstlerische Stoffe, Motive, Themen: Natur & Tiere (Stillleben, Landschaften etc.)
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Geschichte des Islam

Inhaltsverzeichnis

I. More Than an Animal Movable Beasts: The Manifold Implications of Early Germanic Animal Imagery Stephen O. Glosecki The Truculent Toad in the Middle Ages Mary E. Robbins The Human Animals of Medieval Fables Joyce E. Salisbury Parodic Animal Physicians from the Margins of Medieval Manuscripts David A. Sprunger II. Another Look at the Physiologus Making Animals Mean: Speciest Hermeneutics in the Physiologus of Theobaldus Leslie Kordecki On the Question of a Physiologus Tradition in Emblematic Art and Writing Dietmar Peil III. Neither Man nor Beast The Werewolf as Eiron: Freedom and Comedy in William of Palerne Norman Hinton Gargoyles: Animal Imagery and Artistic Individuality in Medieval ArtJanetta Rebold Benton ,Effigies Amicitiae.veritas inimicitiae: Antifeminism in the Iconography of the Woman-Headed Serpent in Medieval and Renaissance Art and LiteratureNona C. Flores Notes on Contributors Index

Über Autor(innen)

Flores, Nona C.