Holy and Noble Beasts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Holy and Noble Beasts write by David Salter. This book was released on 2001. Holy and Noble Beasts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
A Medieval Book of Beasts
A Medieval Book of Beasts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Medieval Book of Beasts write by Willene B. Clark. This book was released on 2006. A Medieval Book of Beasts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 'The Bestiary' is a book of animals. The 'Second-family' bestiary is the most important version. This study addresses the work's purpose and audience. It includes a critical edition and new English translation, and a catalogue raisonne of the manuscripts.
Rethinking Chaucerian Beasts
Rethinking Chaucerian Beasts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rethinking Chaucerian Beasts write by Carolynn Van Dyke. This book was released on 2012-11-12. Rethinking Chaucerian Beasts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Building on recent work in critical animal studies and posthumanism, this book challenges past assumptions that animals were only explored as illustrative of humanity, not as interesting in their own right. The contributors combine close reading of Chaucer's texts with insights drawn from cultural or critical animal studies.
Glossator
Glossator - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Glossator write by Daniel Whistler. This book was released on 2013-03-07. Glossator available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Volume 7 (2013): The Mystical Text (Black Clouds Course Through Me Unending . . . )Editors: Nicola Masciandaro & Eugene ThackerContributors: Cinzia Arruzza, Daniel Colucciello Barber, Ron Broglio, Aaron Dunlap, Kevin Hart, Karmen MacKendrick, Beatrice Marovich, Timothy Morton, Joshua Ramey, Christopher Roman, Daniel Whistler.
In the Skin of a Beast
In the Skin of a Beast - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook In the Skin of a Beast write by Peggy McCracken. This book was released on 2017-05-17. In the Skin of a Beast available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In medieval literature, when humans and animals meet—whether as friends or foes—issues of mastery and submission are often at stake. In the Skin of a Beast shows how the concept of sovereignty comes to the fore in such narratives, reflecting larger concerns about relations of authority and dominion at play in both human-animal and human-human interactions. Peggy McCracken discusses a range of literary texts and images from medieval France, including romances in which animal skins appear in symbolic displays of power, fictional explorations of the wolf’s desire for human domestication, and tales of women and snakes converging in a representation of territorial claims and noble status. These works reveal that the qualities traditionally used to define sovereignty—lineage and gender among them—are in fact mobile and contingent. In medieval literary texts, as McCracken demonstrates, human dominion over animals is a disputed model for sovereign relations among people: it justifies exploitation even as it mandates protection and care, and it depends on reiterations of human-animal difference that paradoxically expose the tenuous nature of human exceptionalism.
