The Medieval World of Nature

A Book of Essays
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-367-18792-7
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 282 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 361 g

Reihe: Routledge Library Editions: The Medieval World

Originally published in 1993, The Medieval World of Nature looks at how the natural world was viewed by medieval society. The book presents the argument that the pragmatic medieval view of the natural world of animals and plants, existed simply to serve medieval society. It discusses the medieval concept of animals as food, labour, and sport and addresses how the biblical charge of assuming dominion over animals and plants, was rooted in the medieval sensibility of control. The book also looks at the idea of plants and animals as not only pragmatic, but as allegories within the medieval world, utilizing animals to draw morality tales, which were viewed with as much importance as scientific information. This book provides a unique and interesting look at the everyday medieval world.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Salisbury, Joyce E.

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements Introduction Part I: Animals 1. The Mirror of Nature Distorted: The Medieval Artist’s Dilemma in Depicting Animals 2. Falconry and Medieval Views of Nature 3. The Protohistory of Pike in Western Culture 4. Animals Images in Gottfried von Strassburg’s Tristan: Structure and Meaning in Metaphor Part II: Animals and People 5. Martyrs and Monks, Insects, and Animals 6. The Shadow of Reason: Explanations of Intelligent Animal Behavior in the Thirteenth Century 7. The Goddess Natura in the Occitan Lyric 8. Wild Folk and Lunatics in Medieval Romance Part III: People and the Land 9. The Land, Who Owns It? 10. Cultured Nature in Chaucer’s Early Dream-Poems 11. Dante’s Utopian Landscape: The Garden of God 12. Father God and Mother Earth: Nature Mysticism in the Anglo-Saxon World Notes on Contributors Index