Introducing the Medieval Fox (Medieval Animals)

Wackers, Paul

University of Wales Press（2023/02発売）

University of Wales Press（2023/02発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 128 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781786839886
• DDC分類 809.9336297750902

Full Description

This book is an entertaining, informative and enchanting introduction to its subject - just as those medieval banes of the farmyard, the Fox and the Vixen, were enchanting in escapades from fables and funny tales, from beastly epic poems and bestiaries, and from medieval material culture (in Danish wall-paintings and Dutch manuscript illustrations and statues, stained-glass and Italian mosaics). There exist books on medieval fox stories and on the animal's iconography, which are important themes in this study, but this book is the first holistic approach to all types of manifestations of foxes in medieval culture - from medical recipes and fur trade, to Bible commentaries and hunting manuals.

Contents

Preface
List of Illustrations
Introduction
The Fox and Medieval Religion
The Fox and Medieval Scholarship
The Fox and Medieval Literature
Postscript
Appendix
Endnotes
Further Reading
Select Bibliography
Index