Impious Dogs, Haughty Foxes and Exquisite Fish : Evaluative Perception and Interpretation of Animals in Ancient and Medieval Mediterranean Thought / Johannes Pahlitzsch, Tristan Schmidt.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Pahlitzsch, Johannes, Editor.

Schmidt, Tristan, Editor.

Conference Name:

Finding, Inheriting, or Borrowing? Construction and Transfer of Knowledge about Man and Nature in Antiquity and the Middle Ages (2016 : Mainz, Germany), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human-animal relationships.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (196 pages)

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This volume is dedicated to the topic of the human evaluation and interpretation of animals in ancient and medieval cultures. From a transcultural perspective contributions from Assyriology, Byzantine Studies, Classical Archaeology, Egyptology, German Medieval Studies and Jewish History look into the processes and mechanisms behind the transfer by people of certain values to animals, and the functions these animal-signs have within written, pictorial and performative forms of expression.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface

Contents

Introduction: Perception and Evaluation of Animals in Euro-Mediterranean Cultures

Nature Engaged and Disengaged

Animal Imagery as a Means to Describe 'the Other' in Ancient Egypt

Shaming by Naming

Barking at the Threshold

Noble Hounds for Aristocrats, Stray Dogs for Heretics

You Are the Animal That You Eat

'An Entertaining Tale of Quadrupeds'

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9783110576412

3110576414

9783110576917

3110576910

OCLC:

1105889487