Beasts and Birds of the Middle Ages : The Bestiary and Its Legacy / Meredith T. McMunn, Willene B. Clark.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Clark, Willene B., Editor.

McMunn, Meredith T., Editor.

Series:

The Middle Ages

The Middle Ages Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Animals in literature.

Animals--Folklore.

Animals.

Animals, Mythical, in literature.

Bestiaries--History and criticism.

Bestiaries.

Didactic literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)--History and criticism.

Didactic literature, Latin (Medieval and modern).

Literature, Medieval--History and criticism.

Literature, Medieval.

Genre:

Folklore

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (228 p.) : 50 illus.

Edition:

Reprint 2016

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

No detailed description available for "Beasts and Birds of the Middle Ages".

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 Cesar 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

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

1-5128-0551-3

OCLC:

979882471