Beasts and Birds of the Middle Ages : the Bestiary and Its Legacy /

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Clark, Willene B., McMunn, Meredith T.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]
Series:The Middle Ages Series
Subjects:
Bestiaries > History and criticism.
Didactic literature, Latin (Medieval and modern) > History and criticism.
Literature, Medieval > History and criticism.
Animals, Mythical, in literature.
Animals in literature.
Animals > Folklore.
Bestiaires > Histoire et critique.
Littérature didactique latine médiévale et moderne > Histoire et critique.
Littérature médiévale > Histoire et critique.
Animaux fabuleux dans la littérature.
Animaux dans la littérature.
HISTORY > Medieval.
Animals.
Bestiaries.
Didactic literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Literature, Medieval.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Folklore.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Art of Memory and the Bestiary
  • 2. The Aviary-Bestiary at the Houghton Library, Harvard
  • 3. Workshop Methods in English Late Twelfth-Century Illumination and the Production of Luxury Bestiaries
  • 4 The Phoenix: Its Nature and Its Place in the Tradition of the Physiologus
  • 5. Spring, Love, Birdsong: The Nightingale in Two Cultures
  • 6. Duel of Bestiaries
  • 7. An Elephant in the Litany: Further Thoughts on an English Book of Hours in the Walters Art Gallery (W. 102)
  • 8. Bestiary Influences in Two Thirteenth- Century Romances
  • 9. Animal Symbolism in the Prophecies of Merlin
  • 10. Notes on Beasts in the Histoire ancienne jusqu'à César of Rogier, Châtelain de Lille
  • 11. Peacocks and Preachers: Analytic Technique in Marcus of Orvieto's Liber de moralitatibus, Vatican lot. MS S93S
  • Appendix: Manuscripts of Western Medieval Bestiary Versions
  • Bibliography of Bestiary Studies Since 1962
  • Contributors
  • Index

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