Overview

"This collection of interdisciplinary essays focus on animals as symbols, ideas or images in medieval art and literature. Representing the broad spectrum of work in the field, contributors discuss how the bestiary mirrored values of medieval society, explore the the development of composite creatures in the bestiary and examine the Greek text ""Physiologus"" in depth."

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Author:   Nona C. Flores
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.420kg
ISBN:  

9780415928939

ISBN 10:   0415928931
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   15 September 2000
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"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"

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