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| Author | : Nona C. Flores |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 225 |
| Release | : 2016-01-20 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1135546703 |
These interdisciplinary essays focus on animals as symbols, ideas, or images in medieval art and literature.
| Author | : Kathleen Walker-Meikle |
| Publisher | : Boydell Press |
| Total Pages | : 202 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1843837587 |
An engaging and informative survey of medieval pet keeping which also examines their representation in art and literature.
| Author | : Joyce E. Salisbury |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 216 |
| Release | : 2012-11-12 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 113576431X |
Praise for the first edition: "...a brave and fascinating exploration of an area that has so far been rather neglected by both historical and literary critics. The Beast Within provides extremely valuable information on the legal and cultural background of the human-animal relationship..." -- Studies in the Age of Chaucer This important book offers a unique exploration of the use of and attitude towards animals from the 4th to the 14th centuries. The Beast Within explores the varying roles of animals as property, food and sexual objects, and the complex relationship that this created with the people and world around them. Joyce E. Salisbury takes an interdisciplinary approach to the subject, weaving a historical narrative that includes economic, legal, theological, literary and artistic sources. The book shows how by the end of the Middle Ages the lines between humans and animals had blurred completely, making us recognise the beast that lay within us all. This new edition has been brought right up to date with current scholarship, and includes a brand new chapter on animals on trial and animals as human companions, as well as expanded and updated discussions on fables and saints, and a new section on ‘bestial humans’. This important and provocative book remains a key work on the historical study of animals, as well as in the field of environmental history more generally, and also provides crucial context to ongoing debates on animal rights and the environment.
| Author | : Francis Klingender |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 1039 |
| Release | : 2019-07-02 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0429557752 |
Originally published in 1971, Animals in Art and Thought discusses the ways in which animals have been used by man in art and literature. The book looks at how they have been used to symbolise religious, social and political beliefs, as well as their pragmatic use by hunters, sportsmen, and farmers. The book discusses these various attitudes in a survey which ranges from prehistoric cave art to the later Middle Ages. The book is especially concerned with uncovering the latent, as well as the manifest meanings of animal art, and presents a detailed examination of the literary and archaeological monuments of the periods covered in the book. The book discusses the themes of Creation myths of the pagan and Christian religion, the contribution of the animal art of the ancient contribution of the animal art of the ancient Orient to the development of the Romanesque and gothic styles in Europe, the use of beast fables in social or political satire, and the heroic associations of animals in medieval chivalry.
| Author | : Anselm Oelze |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2018 |
| Genre | : Animal intelligence |
| ISBN | : 9789004363625 |
In Animal Rationality: Later Medieval Theories 1250-1350, Anselm Oelze offers the first comprehensive and systematic exploration of theories of animal rationality in the later Middle Ages. Traditionally, it was held that medieval thinkers ascribed rationality to humans while denying it to nonhuman animals. As Oelze shows, this narrative fails to capture the depth and diversity of the medieval debate. Although many thinkers, from Albert the Great to John Buridan, did indeed hold that nonhuman animals lack rational faculties, some granted them the ability to engage in certain rational processes such as judging, reasoning, or employing prudence. There is thus a whole spectrum of positions to be discovered, many of which show interesting parallels with contemporary theories of animal rationality.
| Author | : Aleksander Pluskowski |
| Publisher | : Oxbow Books Limited |
| Total Pages | : 260 |
| Release | : 2007 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
An important human trait is our inclination to develop complex relationships with numerous other species. In the great majority of cases however, these mutualistic relationships involve a pair of species, whose co-evolution has been achieved through behavioural adaptation driving positive selection pressures. Humans go a step further, opportunistically and, it sometimes seems, almost arbitrarily elaborating relationships with many other species, whether through domestication, pet-keeping, taming for menageries, deifying, pest-control, conserving iconic species, or recruiting as mascots. When we consider medieval attitudes to animals we are tackling a fundamentally human, and distinctly idiosyncratic, behavioural trait. The sixteen papers presented here investigate animals from zoological, anthropological, artistic and economic perspectives, within the context of the medieval world.
| Author | : Dominic Alexander |
| Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer Ltd |
| Total Pages | : 212 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1843833948 |
A thorough investigation of the saint and animal topos: its origins, growth and development.
| Author | : László Bartosiewicz |
| Publisher | : Springer Nature |
| Total Pages | : 193 |
| Release | : 2021-02-24 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 303063888X |
This book investigates relations between humans and animals over several centuries with a focus on the Middle Ages, since important features of our perceptions regarding animals have been rooted in that period. Elucidating various aspects of medieval human-animal relationships requires transdisciplinary discourse, and so this book aims to reconcile the materiality of animals with complex cultural systems illustrating their subtle transitions 'between body and mind'.
| Author | : Nona Flores |
| Publisher | : Garland Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 220 |
| Release | : 2000-09 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780815339724 |
| Author | : Janetta Rebold Benton |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 200 |
| Release | : 1992 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : |
"Featuring incredible creatures and grotesque gargoyles, "The Medieval Menagerie" takes us from the improbable to the impossible as it traces the depiction and the meaning of real and imaginary animals in medieval art. From unicorns and dragons to elephants, lions, and monkeys, medieval society was fascinated with animals, whether they actually existed or not. The more fantastic the creature, the greater its hold seems to have been on the fertile imaginations of the Middle Ages. Both art and literature abound with vividly concocted examples of Gothic monsters (gargoyles and griffins), bizarre ideas about real if exotic beasts (lions were believed to be born dead and resurrected by the father lion three days later), and strange visions of composite creatures (such as a widely accepted animal believed to be a cross between an ant and a lion). Featuring the celebrated collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, "The Medieval Menagerie" is illustrated with the splendid and amusing beasts found in medieval painting, sculpture, architecture and decorative arts, as wello as in bestiaries and manuscripts. The text explores the depiction and the meaning of real and imaginary animals in medieval art. Elegant, lively and intelligent, "The Medieval Managerie" captures some of the wildest creatures ever to grace a Gothic cathedral."--Amazon.ca product desc.
