First published 1996 by Routledge. Previously published in hardback as vol. 1716 in the Garland Reference Library of the Humanities.
"Animals in the Middle Ages" explores animals as symbols, ideas, or images in the art and literature of the Middle Ages. Each chapter addresses the theme raised in Job 12:7 — "But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee".
The first section, "More than an Animal," shows how animal images in early Germanic artifacts, manuscript illustration, fables, and religious literature were used to teach medieval man truth about his cosmos or reflected the values of his society.
"Another Look at the 'Physiologus'," brings fresh perspectives to this primary source book of animals as symbols of moral and metaphysical truths during the medieval period.
The final section, "Neither Man nor Beast" describes the creation and uses of composite creatures, especially those of part animal, part human forms.
Author(s): Nora C. Flores (ed.)
Edition: Reprint
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2016
Language: English
Pages: XVIII+206
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction ix
Abbreviations xvii
Part 1. More than an Animal
Stephen O. Glosecki / Movable Beasts: The Manifold Implications of Early Germanic Animal Imagery 3
Mary E. Robbins / The Truculent Toad in the Middle Ages 25
Joyce E. Salisbury / Human Animals of Medieval Fables 49
David A. Sprunger / Parodic Animal Physicians from the Margins of Medieval Manuscripts 67
Part 2. Another Look at the Physiologus
Lesley Kordecki / Making Animals Mean: Speciest Hermeneutics in the "Physiologus" of Theobaldus 85
Dietmar Peil / On the Question of a "Physiologus" Tradition in Emblematic Art and Writing 103
Part 3. Neither Man nor Beast
Norman Hinton / The Werewolf as 'Eiron': Freedom and Comedy in "William of Palerne" 133
Janetta Rebold Benton / Gargoyles: Animal Imagery and Artistic Individuality in Medieval Art 147
Nona C. Flores / "Effigies amicitiae... veritas inimicitiae": Antifeminism in the Iconography of the Woman-Headed Serpent in Medieval and Renaissance Art and Literature 167
Contributors 197
General Index 199
Index of Animals and Creatures 205
