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A welcome addition to a field which is, or should be, of interest to art historians, literary critics and students of folk-narrative alike.
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These interdisciplinary essays focus on animals as symbols, ideas, or images in medieval art and literature.
"Excellent, well-illustrated." -- Quarterly Review of Biology
A welcome addition to a field which is, or should be, of interest to art historians, literary critics and students of folk-narrative alike.
–Envoi
Excellent, well-illustrated.
–Quarterly Review of Biology --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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These interdisciplinary essays focus on animals as symbols, ideas, or images in medieval art and literature.
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Middle Ages, New York, William of Palerne, Sutton Hoo, Odo of Cheriton, Fall of Man, Oxford University Press, British Library, Reynard the Fox, British Museum, Hugh of Fouilloy, Marie de France, Sawles Warde, Clarendon Press, Guillaume de Palerne, Middle English, Princeton University Press, University of California Press, Book of Hours, Harvard University Press, Latin Physiologus, Vincent of Beauvais, Albertus Magnus, Bartholomaeus Anglicus, Giraldus Cambrensis New!
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Early Germanic art-strange, fanciful, mysterious-tantalizes the mind with zoo-morphic design. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
veritas inimicitiae, effigies amicitiae, medieval fabulists, tricky servant, animal physician, urine flask, medieval fables, classical fables, humanae salvationis, emblematic tradition, marginal illustrations, human physicians, emblem books, manifold implications, animal art, monstrous races, composite creatures, animal imagery, medieval artist Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Middle Ages, New York, William of Palerne, Sutton Hoo, Odo of Cheriton, Fall of Man, Oxford University Press, British Library, Reynard the Fox, British Museum, Hugh of Fouilloy, Marie de France, Sawles Warde, Clarendon Press, Guillaume de Palerne, Middle English, Princeton University Press, University of California Press, Book of Hours, Harvard University Press, Latin Physiologus, Vincent of Beauvais, Albertus Magnus, Bartholomaeus Anglicus, Giraldus Cambrensis New!
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- Art of the Middle Ages (World of Art) by Janetta Rebold Benton on 4 pages
- Medieval Fables by Marie on 4 pages
- The Ship of Fools by Sebastian Brant on 4 pages
- The Beast Within: Animals in the Middle Ages by Joyce Salisbury on 4 pages
- The Medieval Menagerie by Janetta Rebold Benton on 4 pages
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- Representing Animals by Nigel Rothfels on page 8, and page 17
- The Mark of the Beast: The Medieval Bestiary in Art, Life, and Literature (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities) by Debra Hassig in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- Images of Intolerance: The Representation of Jews and Judaism in the Bible moralisée (S. Mark Taper Foundation Jewish Studies) by Sara Lipton in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Tales of Vice and Virtue: The First Old French Vie des Pères (Faux Titre 253) by Adrian P. Tudor on page 360, and Back Matter
- Illuminating the Border of French and Flemish Manuscripts, 1270-1310 (Studies in Medieval History and Culture) by Lisa Moore Hunt in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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