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Hassig, Debra (ed.), The Mark of the Beast: The Medieval Bestiary in Art, Life, and Literature, Nova York - Londres, Routledge (Garland medieval casebooks, 22 / Garland reference library of the humanities, 2076), 1999, xxi + 219 pp. + [11] làm.
- Resum
- These essays analyze the medieval bestiary from both literary and art history perspectives, exploring issues including kinship, romance, sex, death, and the afterlife. The medieval bestiary was the culmination and apogee of allegorical functions for animals, assembling stories and pictures of beasts and birds for purposes of moral instruction and courtly entertainment. It is indisputable that the bestiaries were an important medieval contribution to didactic religious literature. But far from comprising an isolated, specialist's genre available only to the religious and literate elite, bestiaries addressed concerns central to virtually all walks of Christian life. Art historical and literary essays with consistent emphasis on text and image analysis explore a variety of important issues treated both in the bestiaries and in their forerunner, thePhysiologus. These issues include the Church, the monarchy, anti-semitism, fantastic beasts, Classical thought, romance, sex, and death. Together, the essays clearly demonstrate how bestiaries both address and further develop some of the most important concerns of the Middle Ages, ultimately playing a significant role in thecreation of their own cultural milieu.
Contents:
- Part 1. Social realities
* The lion, bloodline and kinship / Margaret Haist (3)
* Misericord owls and medieval anti-semitism / Mariko Miyazaki (23)
- Part 2. Moral lessons
* Bestiary lessons on pride and lust / Carmen Brown (53)
* Sex in the bestiaries / Debra Hassig (71)
* The phoenix and the resurrection / Valerie Jones (99)
- Part 3. Classical inheritances
* Did imaginary animals exist? / Pamela Gravestock (119)
* Classical ideology in the medieval bestiary / J. Holli Wheatcroft (141)
- Part 4. Reading beasts
* Taboos and the holy in Bodley 764 / Alison Syme (163)
* Silence's beasts / Michelle Bolduc (185)
- Appendix: List of bestiary and Physiologus manuscripts (211-213)
- Index of creatures (217-219)
- Matèries
- Història natural - Animals
Doctrina moral - Bestiari
Història de la literatura
Història de l'art
Heràldica
Il·lustracions
Simbologia
- Notes
- Reimpr. en rústica: 2000.
- URL
- http://books.google.com/books?id=lx09r7EOL_oC&lpg=P ...
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