These essays analyze the medieval bestiary from both literary and art history perspectives, exploring issues including kinship, romance, sex, death, and the afterlife.
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Debra Hassig Ph.D. is a Reader at the Institute of Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh
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The lion is the most ubiquitous of the bestiary animals, and is also one of the relatively few to carry strong associations beyond the bestiary, especially in the medieval heraldry. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Middle Ages, Bodleian Library, Norwich Cathedral, British Library, Old Testament, Bern Physiologus, University Library, Petersburg Bestiary, Laud Misc, Pierpont Morgan Library, Vita Merlini, Hugh of Fouilloy, Los Angeles, Paul Getty Museum, Cambridge Bestiary, Art Bulletin, King Ebain, Monstrous Races, Morgan Bestiary, Robert de Boron's Merlin, William of Norwich, Archaeological Journal, Burgerbibliothek Bern, Edward Topsell New!
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The lion is the most ubiquitous of the bestiary animals, and is also one of the relatively few to carry strong associations beyond the bestiary, especially in the medieval heraldry. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Middle Ages, Bodleian Library, Norwich Cathedral, British Library, Old Testament, Bern Physiologus, University Library, Petersburg Bestiary, Laud Misc, Pierpont Morgan Library, Vita Merlini, Hugh of Fouilloy, Los Angeles, Paul Getty Museum, Cambridge Bestiary, Art Bulletin, King Ebain, Monstrous Races, Morgan Bestiary, Robert de Boron's Merlin, William of Norwich, Archaeological Journal, Burgerbibliothek Bern, Edward Topsell New!
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- The Beast Within: Animals in the Middle Ages by Joyce E. Salisbury in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- Beasts and Birds of the Middle Ages: The Bestiary and Its Legacy (The Middle Ages Series) by Willene B. Clark in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- On Unbelievable Tales (Palaephatus: Peri Apiston) by Palaephatus on page 121, and page 132
- History of Animals by Aristotle on page 124, and page 135
- Medieval Bestiaries: Text, Image, Ideology (Res Monographs in Anthropology and Aesthetics) by Debra Hassig in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
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