TY  - BOOK
AU  - Preston,Todd
TI  - A Handbook of Animals in Old English Texts
T2  - Arc Reference
SN  - 9781802700299
U1  - 829.09362 23
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Leeds
PB  - ARC Humanities Press
KW  - Animals in literature
KW  - English literature
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Old English, ca. 450-1100
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Old English Literature, Animals, Anglo-Saxon England, Medieval Literature, Bestiary
N1  - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; PREFACE --; INTRODUCTION --; ANIMAL ENTRIES --; BIBLIOGRAPHY --; INDEX OF OLD ENGLISH HEADWORDS; restricted access
N2  - A Handbook of Animals in Old English Texts is the definitive handbook for students, scholars, and observers of the non-human in early medieval England. In this interdisciplinary compendium to the animal inhabitants of medieval Britain, Preston documents each creature mentioned in the Old English literary textual canon and correlates its standard literary interpretation with relevant historical, archaeological, and ecological studies. Beyond its usefulness as a reference work, Preston’s text challenges the reader to move beyond a literary analysis of the figural beast to one that leaves space for the actual animal
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781802700299?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781802700299
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781802700299/original
ER  -