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Beasts and Birds of the Middle Ages : The Bestiary and Its Legacy / Meredith T. McMunn, Willene B. Clark.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: The Middle Ages SeriesPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©1989Edition: Reprint 2016Description: 1 online resource (228 p.) : 50 illusContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780812281477
  • 9781512805512
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 809.9336 20
LOC classification:
  • PA8275.B4
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Art of Memory and the Bestiary -- 2. The Aviary-Bestiary at the Houghton Library, Harvard -- 3. Workshop Methods in English Late Twelfth-Century Illumination and the Production of Luxury Bestiaries -- 4 The Phoenix: Its Nature and Its Place in the Tradition of the Physiologus -- 5. Spring, Love, Birdsong: The Nightingale in Two Cultures -- 6. Duel of Bestiaries -- 7. An Elephant in the Litany: Further Thoughts on an English Book of Hours in the Walters Art Gallery (W. 102) -- 8. Bestiary Influences in Two Thirteenth- Century Romances -- 9. Animal Symbolism in the Prophecies of Merlin -- 10. Notes on Beasts in the Histoire ancienne jusqu’à César of Rogier, Châtelain de Lille -- 11. Peacocks and Preachers: Analytic Technique in Marcus of Orvieto’s Liber de moralitatibus, Vatican lot. MS S93S -- Appendix: Manuscripts of Western Medieval Bestiary Versions -- Bibliography of Bestiary Studies Since 1962 -- Contributors -- Index
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Art of Memory and the Bestiary -- 2. The Aviary-Bestiary at the Houghton Library, Harvard -- 3. Workshop Methods in English Late Twelfth-Century Illumination and the Production of Luxury Bestiaries -- 4 The Phoenix: Its Nature and Its Place in the Tradition of the Physiologus -- 5. Spring, Love, Birdsong: The Nightingale in Two Cultures -- 6. Duel of Bestiaries -- 7. An Elephant in the Litany: Further Thoughts on an English Book of Hours in the Walters Art Gallery (W. 102) -- 8. Bestiary Influences in Two Thirteenth- Century Romances -- 9. Animal Symbolism in the Prophecies of Merlin -- 10. Notes on Beasts in the Histoire ancienne jusqu’à César of Rogier, Châtelain de Lille -- 11. Peacocks and Preachers: Analytic Technique in Marcus of Orvieto’s Liber de moralitatibus, Vatican lot. MS S93S -- Appendix: Manuscripts of Western Medieval Bestiary Versions -- Bibliography of Bestiary Studies Since 1962 -- Contributors -- Index

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In English.

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