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What could the phoenix, elephant, and spider teach medieval people, and what can they teach us now about human - animal relationships? Medieval Bestiaries: New Approaches offers innovative insights on questions previously unasked about a most popular type of illuminated manuscript, whose animal pictures and stories continue to entertain and inspire.
Bringing together an impressive range of multi-disciplinary expertise, the authors provide fresh perspectives on previously unpublished or under-explored bestiary texts, images, methods of production, cross-literary influences, and moralized messaging. Most significantly, they move bestiaries out of their specialized scholarly corner into the wider world of animal-thinking across Christian, Jewish, and Islamic cultures, and stake a claim for animals as a central meeting-ground for medieval and modern sensibilities.
Contributors are Emma Campbell, Marc M. Epstein, Erica Fudge, Larisa Grollemond, Rebecca Hill, Elizabeth Morrison, Julie Orlemanski, Alexandra Paddock, and Debra Higgs Strickland.
Contents
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Figures
Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors
11 Introduction
Debra Higgs Strickland
12 Translanguaging and Multimediality in Philippe de Thaon's Medieval 'French' Bestiaire
Emma Campbell
13 The Missing Jewish Bestiary: Animals as "Good to Think with" in Art Made for (and Sometimes by) Medieval Jews
Marc M. Epstein
14 Virtuous Beasts: the Bestiary in a Sixteenth-Century French Manuscript (BnF Ms. Fr. 1877)
Larisa Grollemond
15 Unfixed Stars: Engaging Animals in the Islamic History of the Book
Rebecca Hill
16 Tail Wagging the Dog? Illuminating and Writing the Bestiary
Elizabeth Morrison
17 Phoenician Ontology and the Art of Species, or Jean de Meun Rewrites the Bestiary
Julie Orlemanski
18 Ecocriticism and Enormous Animals in the Second Family Bestiary
Alexandra Paddock
19 Insects in and around the Bestiaries
Debra Higgs Strickland
20 Afterword
Erica Fudge
Index
