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Moulinier, Laurence, "L'abbesse et les poissons: un aspect de la zoologie de Hildegarde de Bingen", dins: Desse, Jean - Audoin-Rouzeau, Frédérique (eds.), Exploitation des animaux sauvages à travers le temps: actes des rencontres, 15-16-17 octobre 1992. XIIIe Rencontres internationales d'archeologie et d'histoire d'Antibes. IVe Colloque international de l'Homme et l'animal, Société de recherche interdisciplinaire, Juan-les-Pins, APDCA (Association pour la promotion et la diffusion des connaissances archéologiques), 1993, pp. 461-472.
- Resum
- Among all the animals described by Hildegard of Bingen (a German benedictine abbess of the 12th century) in her scientific work Physica, fishes seem to be what she knew and observed best. According to many scholars, her "Book of fishes" might even be the most original contribution, in this field, to the whole medieval zoology. As a matter of fact, Hildegard's knowledge of aquatic fauna may be due to biographical, geographical and historical reasons : on one hand, she inhabited and founded cloisters situated on the river Rhine bank ; on the other hand, we know that fish played a great part in the diet of monasteries living under St. Benedict's Rule, which Hildegard herself commented in detail. We owe to her one of the oldest reports on Rheingau's fishes, and certainly a first-class linguistic document : the local fauna in her writings is actually called by vernacular names which are partly still used. The double way Hildegard looked at these fishes is particularly interesting, since she looked at them not only as useful for man (i.e. good for food and medicine), but also from a precocious zoological point of view, describing fishes' spawn, habitat of food.
- Matèries
- Història natural - Humans
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- https://shs.hal.science/halshs-00608756
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