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 medieval heraldry. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
bestiary images, misericord owls, peridexion tree, bestiary entries, bestiary texts, owl mobbed, later bestiaries, bestiary creatures, bestiary stories, bestiary imagery, creature portraits, bestiary tradition, bestiary animals, phoenix myth, phoenix story, medieval bestiaries, imaginary animals, medieval bestiary, fire rocks Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Middle Ages, Bodleian Library, Norwich Cathedral, Old Testament, Bern Physiologus, British Library, 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, Burgerbibliothek Bern, Edward Topsell, Geoffrey of Monmouth 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 medieval heraldry. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
bestiary images, misericord owls, peridexion tree, bestiary entries, bestiary texts, owl mobbed, later bestiaries, bestiary creatures, bestiary stories, bestiary imagery, creature portraits, bestiary tradition, bestiary animals, phoenix myth, phoenix story, medieval bestiaries, imaginary animals, medieval bestiary, fire rocks Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Middle Ages, Bodleian Library, Norwich Cathedral, Old Testament, Bern Physiologus, British Library, 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, Burgerbibliothek Bern, Edward Topsell, Geoffrey of Monmouth New!
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- The Medieval Menagerie by Janetta Rebold Benton in Front Matter, and page 90
- The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Daily Life: A Tour through History from Ancient Times to the Present (six-volume set) by Joyce E. Salisbury in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- On Unbelievable Tales (Palaephatus: Peri Apiston) by Palaephatus on page 121, and page 132
- 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)
- Art of the Middle Ages (World of Art) by Janetta Rebold Benton in Front Matter, and page 90
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- Marian Devotion in Thirteenth-Century French Lyric by Daniel E. O' Sullivan in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Isabelle of France: Capetian Sanctity and Franciscan Identity in the Thirteenth Century (ND Texts Medieval Culture) by Sean L. Field in Back Matter
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