Mediaeval Latin and French Bestiaries
Author | : Florence McCulloch |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1962 |
Genre | : Bestiaries |
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Author | : Florence McCulloch |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1962 |
Genre | : Bestiaries |
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Author | : Florence McCulloch |
Publisher | : Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 1960 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
This is the first English-language study of bestiaries, mediaeval works that described and illustrated animals, birds, and other creatures. Florence McCulloch describes the nature of the Latin Physiologus, which is frequently cited as among the earliest examples of serious works of natural history.
Author | : Florence Mac Culloch |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Bestiaries |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Sarah Kay |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2017-02-24 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 022643673X |
Sarah Kay s interests in this book are, first, to examine how medieval bestiaries depict and challenge the boundary between humans and other animals; and second, to register the effects on readers of bestiaries by the simple fact that parchment, the writing support of virtually all medieval texts, is a refined form of animal skin. Surveying the most important works created from the ninth through the thirteenth centuries, Kay connects nature to behavior to Christian doctrine or moral teaching across a range of texts. As Kay shows, medieval thought (like today) was fraught with competing theories about human exceptionalism within creation. Given that medieval bestiaries involve the inscription of texts about and images of animals onto animal hides, these texts, she argues, invite readers to reflect on the inherent fragility of bodies, both human and animal, and the difficulty of distinguishing between skin as a site of mere inscription and skin as a containing envelope for sentient life. It has been more than fifty years since the last major consideration of medieval Latin and French bestiaries was published. Kay brings us up to date in the archive, and contributes to current discussions among animal studies theorists, manuscript studies scholars, historians of the book, and medievalists of many stripes."
Author | : Sarah Kay |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2017-02-24 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 022643687X |
Just like we do today, people in medieval times struggled with the concept of human exceptionalism and the significance of other creatures. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the medieval bestiary. Sarah Kay’s exploration of French and Latin bestiaries offers fresh insight into how this prominent genre challenged the boundary between its human readers and other animals. Bestiaries present accounts of animals whose fantastic behaviors should be imitated or avoided, depending on the given trait. In a highly original argument, Kay suggests that the association of beasts with books is here both literal and material, as nearly all surviving bestiaries are copied on parchment made of animal skin, which also resembles human skin. Using a rich array of examples, she shows how the content and materiality of bestiaries are linked due to the continual references in the texts to the skins of other animals, as well as the ways in which the pages themselves repeatedly—and at times, it would seem, deliberately—intervene in the reading process. A vital contribution to animal studies and medieval manuscript studies, this book sheds new light on the European bestiary and its profound power to shape readers’ own identities.
Author | : Pierre (de Beauvais) |
Publisher | : Edwin Mellen Press |
Total Pages | : 378 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Animals |
ISBN | : |
This is an English translation of the short version of the French Bestiary of Pierre de Beauvais. The original text, the Physiologus was probably written during the 2nd century, in Greek, then translated to Latin, and then translated into Old French by de Beauvais. These are stories of animals given as symbols of Man's eternal fears and hopes. This bestiary can be used as a means of understanding the thought processes of people in the Middle Ages.
Author | : Elizabeth Morrison |
Publisher | : Getty Publications |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : ART |
ISBN | : 1606065904 |
A celebration of the visual contributions of the bestiary--one of the most popular types of illuminated books during the Middle Ages--and an exploration of its lasting legacy. Brimming with lively animals both real and fantastic, the bestiary was one of the great illuminated manuscript traditions of the Middle Ages. Encompassing imaginary creatures such as the unicorn, siren, and griffin; exotic beasts including the tiger, elephant, and ape; as well as animals native to Europe like the beaver, dog, and hedgehog, the bestiary is a vibrant testimony to the medieval understanding of animals and their role in the world. So iconic were the stories and images of the bestiary that its beasts essentially escaped from the pages, appearing in a wide variety of manuscripts and other objects, including tapestries, ivories, metalwork, and sculpture. With over 270 color illustrations and contributions by twenty-five leading scholars, this gorgeous volume explores the bestiary and its widespread influence on medieval art and culture as well as on modern and contemporary artists like Pablo Picasso and Damien Hirst. Published to accompany an exhibition on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center May 14 to August 18, 2019.
Author | : Florence McCulloch |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1956 |
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Author | : Florence McCulloch |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 1962 |
Genre | : Bestiaries |
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Author | : Kathryn E. Piquette |
Publisher | : Ubiquity Press |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2013-12-18 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1909188263 |
Writing as Material Practice grapples with the issue of writing as a form of material culture in its ancient and more recent manifestations, and in the contexts of production and consumption. Fifteen case studies explore the artefactual nature of writing — the ways in which materials, techniques, colour, scale, orientation and visibility inform the creation of inscribed objects and spaces, as well as structure subsequent engagement, perception and meaning making. Covering a temporal span of some 5000 years, from c.3200 BCE to the present day, and ranging in spatial context from the Americas to the Near East, the chapters in this volume bring a variety of perspectives which contribute to both specific and broader questions of writing materialities. The authors also aim to place past graphical systems in their social contexts so they can be understood in relation to the people who created and attributed meaning to writing and associated symbolic modes through a diverse array of individual and wider social practices.