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Author | : Dominic Alexander |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer Ltd |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1843833948 |
Download Saints and Animals in the Middle Ages Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A thorough investigation of the saint and animal topos: its origins, growth and development.
Author | : Joyce E. Salisbury |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2012-11-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 113576431X |
Download The Beast Within Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 | : Mathilde van Dijk |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2024-11-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781032764429 |
Download Companion Species Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book explores the connection between saints and animals, and how the power over animals has been a characteristic of saints from their beginnings in the Early Church. The connection between saints and humans is examined, with the saint as a human rising beyond humanity, touching the divine, and the non-human animal as a creature, which is connected to and yet removed from humanity and which may have a connection to the sacred itself. This volume transcends traditional religious boundaries by including Christian saints as well as similar figures in Islam and Norse religions. It operates on the cusp of two exciting and innovative fields: hagiographic and animal studies. It shows the complexities of human-animal interaction and the sacred: authorities clashing with experiential knowledge, metaphorical animals as opposed to real, animals ranging from helpers or opponents of saints, disguises of demons, or identity markers of a human community. Companion Species will be of value to scholars and students interested in medieval history, Europe and religion, as well as social and cultural history.
Author | : Susan Crane |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2012-11-29 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0812206304 |
Download Animal Encounters Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Traces of the living animal run across the entire corpus of medieval writing and reveal how pervasively animals mattered in medieval thought and practice. In fascinating scenes of cross-species encounters, a raven offers St. Cuthbert a lump of lard that waterproofs his visitors' boots for a whole year, a scholar finds inspiration for his studies in his cat's perfect focus on killing mice, and a dispossessed knight wins back his heritage only to give it up again in order to save the life of his warhorse. Readers have often taken such encounters to be merely figurative or fanciful, but Susan Crane discovers that these scenes of interaction are firmly grounded in the intimate cohabitation with animals that characterized every medieval milieu from palace to village. The animal encounters of medieval literature reveal their full meaning only when we recover the living animal's place within the written animal. The grip of a certain humanism was strong in medieval Britain, as it is today: the humanism that conceives animals in diametrical opposition to humankind. Yet medieval writing was far from univocal in this regard. Latin and vernacular works abound in other ways of thinking about animals that invite the saint, the scholar, and the knight to explore how bodies and minds interpenetrate across species lines. Crane brings these other ways of thinking to light in her readings of the beast fable, the hunting treatise, the saint's life, the bestiary, and other genres. Her substantial contribution to the field of animal studies investigates how animals and people interact in culture making, how conceiving the animal is integral to conceiving the human, and how cross-species encounters transform both their animal and their human participants.
Author | : Alison Langdon |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2018-02-13 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 3319718975 |
Download Animal Languages in the Middle Ages Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The essays in this interdisciplinary volume explore language, broadly construed, as part of the continued interrogation of the boundaries of human and nonhuman animals in the Middle Ages. Uniting a diverse set of emerging and established scholars, Animal Languages questions the assumed medieval distinction between humans and other animals. The chapters point to the wealth of non-human communicative and discursive forms through which animals function both as vehicles for human meaning and as agents of their own, demonstrating the significance of human and non-human interaction in medieval texts, particularly for engaging with the Other. The book ultimately considers the ramifications of deconstructing the medieval anthropocentric view of language for the broader question of human singularity.
Author | : Nona C. Flores |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2016-01-20 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1135546703 |
Download Animals in the Middle Ages Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
These interdisciplinary essays focus on animals as symbols, ideas, or images in medieval art and literature.
Author | : Hannele Klemettilä |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2015-03-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317551907 |
Download Animals and Hunters in the Late Middle Ages Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book explores views of the natural world in the late Middle Ages, especially as expressed in Livre de chasse (Book of the Hunt), the most influential hunting book of the era. It shows that killing and maiming, suffering and the death of animals were not insignificant topics to late medieval men, but constituted a complex set of issues, and could provoke very contradictory thoughts and feelings that varied according social and cultural milieus and particular cases and circumstances.
Author | : Kathleen Walker-Meikle |
Publisher | : Boydell Press |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1843837587 |
Download Medieval Pets Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
An engaging and informative survey of medieval pet keeping which also examines their representation in art and literature.
Author | : Jean-Claude Schmidtt |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2009-04-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521108805 |
Download The Holy Greyhound Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The legend of a dog which is unjustly killed by its master in error, after it has defended his child from attack by a snake or wolf, appears in several popular cultures of Indo-European origin. This book concentrates on one local manifestation of the legend: a cult among the peasants of the Dombes, north of Lyons, who brought their sick child to the grave of 'Saint Guinefort', the martyred greyhound, for preservation from disease. Providing a rare access to the underlying cultural traditions of Europe, all too often submerged in the survivals of literate culture, this book will be welcomed by a wide range of historians and anthropologists.
Author | : Peter F. Dorcey |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9789004096011 |
Download The Cult of Silvanus Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
One of the few studies that deals with Roman domestic religion as practised by the lower classes. The author collects and analyzes the enormous epigraphic and archaeological evidence for Silvanus, The Roman god of agriculture and forests, challenging the widely-held view that private cult was subordinate or inferior to civic paganism.