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Beasts and Birds of the Middle Ages

Author : Willene B. Clark
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 1512805513
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (128 download)

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Download or read book Beasts and Birds of the Middle Ages written by Willene B. Clark and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The medieval bestiary, or moralized book of beasts, has enjoyed immense popularity over the centuries and it continues to influence both literature and art. This collection of essays aims to demonstrate the scope and variety of bestiary studies and the ways in which the medieval bestiary can be addressed. The contributors write about the tradition of one of the bestiary's birds, Parisian production of the manuscripts, bestiary animals in a liturgical book, theological as well as secular interpretations of beasts, bestiary creatures in literature, and new perspectives on the bestiary in other genres.

Book of Beasts

Author : Elizabeth Morrison
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 1606065904
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Book of Beasts written by Elizabeth Morrison and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2019 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Animals in the Middle Ages

Author : Nona C. Flores
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135546703
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (355 download)

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Download or read book Animals in the Middle Ages written by Nona C. Flores and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-01-20 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These interdisciplinary essays focus on animals as symbols, ideas, or images in medieval art and literature.

Birds, Beasts and Relatives

Author : Gerald Durrell
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504041666
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Birds, Beasts and Relatives written by Gerald Durrell and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-10-11 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The follow-up to My Family and Other Animals and the inspiration for The Durrells in Corfu: A naturalist’s memoir of his family’s time on a Greek island. In the years before World War II, Gerald Durrell’s family left the gloomy shores of England for the sun-drenched island of Corfu. Against this picturesque backdrop, Durrell fondly recalls his family’s disorderly household and outrageous antics, including their interactions with locals of both human and animal varieties. After a boyhood spent studying zoology and acquiring the island’s exotic insects, reptiles, birds, mammals, and sea creatures as pets, Durrell’s budding naturalism would later bloom into a passion for conservation that would last a lifetime. Filled with clever observations, amusing anecdotes, and childlike wonder, Birds, Beasts and Relatives is half nature guide, half coming-of-age tale, and all charmingly funny memoir. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Gerald Durrell including rare photos from the author’s estate.

Representing Beasts in Early Medieval England and Scandinavia

Author : Michael D. J. Bintley
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 178327008X
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (832 download)

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Download or read book Representing Beasts in Early Medieval England and Scandinavia written by Michael D. J. Bintley and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2015 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on the depiction of animals, birds and insects in early medieval material culture, from texts to carvings to the landscape itself.

The Book of Beasts

Author : Terence Hanbury White
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780486246093
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book The Book of Beasts written by Terence Hanbury White and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A preeminent medievalist presents a wonderful catalog of real and fanciful beasts, including the manticore, griffin, phoenix, amphivius, jaculus, and many other exotic animals. White's witty, erudite commentary on scientific and historical aspects enhances this survey of proto-zoology on which science is based and pre-scientific perceptions of the earth's creatures. 128 black-and-white illustrations.

Holy and Noble Beasts

Author : David Salter
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 0859916243
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (599 download)

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Download or read book Holy and Noble Beasts written by David Salter and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2001 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It argues that through their depictions of animals, medieval writers were not only able to reflect upon their own humanity, but were also able to explore the meaning of more abstract values and ideas (such as civility, sanctity and nobility) that were central to the culture of the time."--BOOK JACKET.

The Mark of the Beast

Author : Debra Hassig
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780815329527
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (295 download)

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Download or read book The Mark of the Beast written by Debra Hassig and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1999 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Beasts, Humans, and Transhumans in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance

Author : J. Eugene Clay
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9782503590639
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Beasts, Humans, and Transhumans in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance written by J. Eugene Clay and published by Brepols Publishers. This book was released on 2020 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From shape-shifting Merlin to the homunculi of Paracelsus, the nine fascinating essays of this collection explore the contested boundaries between human and non-human animals, between the body and the spirit, and between the demonic and the divine. Drawing on recent work in animal studies, posthumanism, and transhumanism, these innovative articles show how contemporary debates about the nature and future of humanity have deep roots in the myths, literature, philosophy, and art of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. The authors of these essays demonstrate how classical stories of monsters and metamorphoses offered philosophers, artists, and poets a rich source for reflection on marriage, resurrection, and the passions of love. The ambiguous and shifting distinctions between human, animal, demon, and angel have long been contentious. Beasts can elevate humanity: for Renaissance courtiers, horsemanship defined nobility. But animals are also associated with the demonic, and medieval illuminators portrayed Satan with bestial features. Divided into three sections that examine metamorphoses, human-animal relations, and the demonic and monstrous, this volume raises intriguing questions about the ways humans have understood their kinship with animals, nature, and the supernatural.

The Beast Within

Author : Joyce E. Salisbury
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113576431X
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (357 download)

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Download or read book The Beast Within written by Joyce E. Salisbury and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for the first edition: "...a brave and fascinating exploration of an area that has so far been rather neglected by both historical and literary critics. The Beast Within provides extremely valuable information on the legal and cultural background of the human-animal relationship..." -- Studies in the Age of Chaucer This important book offers a unique exploration of the use of and attitude towards animals from the 4th to the 14th centuries. The Beast Within explores the varying roles of animals as property, food and sexual objects, and the complex relationship that this created with the people and world around them. Joyce E. Salisbury takes an interdisciplinary approach to the subject, weaving a historical narrative that includes economic, legal, theological, literary and artistic sources. The book shows how by the end of the Middle Ages the lines between humans and animals had blurred completely, making us recognise the beast that lay within us all. This new edition has been brought right up to date with current scholarship, and includes a brand new chapter on animals on trial and animals as human companions, as well as expanded and updated discussions on fables and saints, and a new section on ‘bestial humans’. This important and provocative book remains a key work on the historical study of animals, as well as in the field of environmental history more generally, and also provides crucial context to ongoing debates on animal rights and the environment.

Beasts at Bedtime

Author : Liam Heneghan
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022643141X
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book Beasts at Bedtime written by Liam Heneghan and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[A] fresh new look at animal tales, often classic, and how they pertain to the present-day and our often fraught relationship to our environment.” —Jeff VanderMeer, author of the Southern Reach Trilogy Talking lions, philosophical bears, very hungry caterpillars, wise spiders, altruistic trees, companionable moles, urbane elephants: this is the magnificent menagerie that delights our children at bedtime. Within the entertaining pages of many children’s books, however, also lie profound teachings about the natural world that can help children develop an educated and engaged appreciation of the dynamic environment they inhabit. In Beasts at Bedtime, scientist (and father) Liam Heneghan examines the environmental underpinnings of children’s stories. From Beatrix Potter to Harry Potter, Heneghan unearths the universal insights into our inextricable relationship with nature that underlie so many classic children’s stories. Some of the largest environmental challenges in coming years—from climate instability, the extinction crisis, freshwater depletion, and deforestation—are likely to become even more severe as this generation of children grows up. Though today’s young readers will bear the brunt of these environmental calamities, they will also be able to contribute to environmental solutions if prepared properly. And all it takes is an attentive eye: Heneghan shows how the nature curriculum is already embedded in bedtime stories, from the earliest board books like The Rainbow Fish to contemporary young adult classics like The Hunger Games. This book enthralls as it engages. Beasts at Bedtime will help parents, teachers, and guardians extend those cozy times curled up together with a good book into a lifetime of caring for our planet. “Beasts at Bedtime is proof that most kidlit has teachable moments embedded in it.” —Toronto Star

The Medieval Menagerie

Author : Janetta Rebold Benton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Medieval Menagerie written by Janetta Rebold Benton and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Featuring incredible creatures and grotesque gargoyles, "The Medieval Menagerie" takes us from the improbable to the impossible as it traces the depiction and the meaning of real and imaginary animals in medieval art. From unicorns and dragons to elephants, lions, and monkeys, medieval society was fascinated with animals, whether they actually existed or not. The more fantastic the creature, the greater its hold seems to have been on the fertile imaginations of the Middle Ages. Both art and literature abound with vividly concocted examples of Gothic monsters (gargoyles and griffins), bizarre ideas about real if exotic beasts (lions were believed to be born dead and resurrected by the father lion three days later), and strange visions of composite creatures (such as a widely accepted animal believed to be a cross between an ant and a lion). Featuring the celebrated collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, "The Medieval Menagerie" is illustrated with the splendid and amusing beasts found in medieval painting, sculpture, architecture and decorative arts, as wello as in bestiaries and manuscripts. The text explores the depiction and the meaning of real and imaginary animals in medieval art. Elegant, lively and intelligent, "The Medieval Managerie" captures some of the wildest creatures ever to grace a Gothic cathedral."--Amazon.ca product desc.

The Grand Medieval Bestiary

Author : Christian Heck
Publisher : Abbeville Press
ISBN 13 : 9780789212948
Total Pages : 620 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book The Grand Medieval Bestiary written by Christian Heck and published by Abbeville Press. This book was released on 2017-04-25 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Monsters and Grotesques in Medieval Manuscripts

Author : Alixe Bovey
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802085122
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (851 download)

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Download or read book Monsters and Grotesques in Medieval Manuscripts written by Alixe Bovey and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Images of monstrosities pervade art and culture in the Middle Ages, and for medieval people they must have been a tantalizing suggestion of unknown worlds and unthinkable dangers.

Medieval Pets

Author : Kathleen Walker-Meikle
Publisher : Boydell Press
ISBN 13 : 1843837587
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Medieval Pets written by Kathleen Walker-Meikle and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engaging and informative survey of medieval pet keeping which also examines their representation in art and literature.

Saints and Animals in the Middle Ages

Author : Dominic Alexander
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1843833948
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Saints and Animals in the Middle Ages written by Dominic Alexander and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2008 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thorough investigation of the saint and animal topos: its origins, growth and development.

A Medieval Book of Beasts

Author : Pierre (de Beauvais)
Publisher : Edwin Mellen Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book A Medieval Book of Beasts written by Pierre (de Beauvais) and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.