Animals and otherness in the Middle Ages : perspectives across disciplines / edited by Francisco de Asis García García, Mónica Ann Walker Vadillo, María Victoria Chico Picaza.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

García García, Francisco, Dr.

Walker-Vadillo, Monica Ann.

Chico Picaza, María Victoria.

Series:

BAR international series ; 2500.

British Archaeological Reports International Series ; 2500

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Animals and civilization.

Physical Description:

153 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Archaeopress, [2013]

Contents:

Preface: The madness continues / Alice Choyke

Animals and otherness in the Middle Ages: an overview from the Garden of Eden / Francisco de Asis Garcia Garcia, Mónica Ann Walker Vadillo and Maria Victoria Chico Picaza

Animalia extranea et stupenda ad videndum: describing and naming exotic beasts in Cairo sultan's menageries / Thierry Buquet

From the vita Pauli to the legenda breviarii: real and imaginary animals as a guide to the hermit in the desert / Laura Fenelli

Animals and otherness in Mamulk Egypt and Syria / Yehoshua Frenkel

Avicenna's philosophy of the animal soul in context / David González Ginocchio

Dogs and human relationship between solidarity and otherness in the leges barbarorum / Maraco Iuffrida

Draconcopedes, or, the faces of devilish virgins / Gerhard Jaritz

Animal fables set among the biblical cycle of the nave of Saint-savin-sur-gartempe / Delia Kottmann

The dragon's skull: how can zooarchaeologists contribute to our understanding of otherness in the Middle Ages? / Aleksander Pluskowski

Snake pernicious and venomous: the malicious and dangerouse other in medieval Bulgarian and early modern charms / Svetlana Tsonkova

Ambiguous figures of otherness: redoubtable beasts in princely badges of the late Middle Ages / Olga Vassilieva-Codognet.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781407311166

1407311166

OCLC:

846531576