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What could the phoenix, elephant, and spider teach medieval people, and what can they teach us now about human â 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together an impressive range of multi-disciplinary expertise, the authors provide fresh perspectives on previously unpublished or under-explored bestiary texts, images, methods of production, cross-literary influences, and moralized messaging.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.
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together an impressive range of multi-disciplinary expertise, the authors provide fresh perspectives on previously unpublished or under-explored bestiary texts, images, methods of production, cross-literary influences, and moralized messaging.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.
Debra Higgs Strickland, PhD (1993), Columbia University, is Professor of Medieval Art History at the University of Glasgow. Her many publications on historical representations of animals, non-humans, and Others include Saracens, Demons, & Jews: Making Monsters in Medieval Art (Princeton, 2003).
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Figures
Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors
11 Introduction
âDebra Higgs Strickland
12 Translanguaging and Multimediality in Philippe de Thaonâs Medieval âFrenchâ Bestiaire
âEmma Campbell
13 The Missing Jewish Bestiary: Animals as âGood to Think withâ in Art Made for (and Sometimes by) Medieval Jews
âMarc M. Epstein
14 Virtuous Beasts: the Bestiary in a Sixteenth-Century French Manuscript (BnF Ms. Fr. 1877)
âLarisa Grollemond
15 Unfixed Stars: Engaging Animals in the Islamic History of the Book
âRebecca Hill
16 Tail Wagging the Dog? Illuminating and Writing the Bestiary
âElizabeth Morrison
17 Phoenician Ontology and the Art of Species, or Jean de Meun Rewrites the Bestiary
âJulie Orlemanski
18 Ecocriticism and Enormous Animals in the Second Family Bestiary
âAlexandra Paddock
19 Insects in and around the Bestiaries
âDebra Higgs Strickland
20 Afterword
âErica Fudge
Index
Acknowledgements
List of Figures
Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors
11 Introduction
âDebra Higgs Strickland
12 Translanguaging and Multimediality in Philippe de Thaonâs Medieval âFrenchâ Bestiaire
âEmma Campbell
13 The Missing Jewish Bestiary: Animals as âGood to Think withâ in Art Made for (and Sometimes by) Medieval Jews
âMarc M. Epstein
14 Virtuous Beasts: the Bestiary in a Sixteenth-Century French Manuscript (BnF Ms. Fr. 1877)
âLarisa Grollemond
15 Unfixed Stars: Engaging Animals in the Islamic History of the Book
âRebecca Hill
16 Tail Wagging the Dog? Illuminating and Writing the Bestiary
âElizabeth Morrison
17 Phoenician Ontology and the Art of Species, or Jean de Meun Rewrites the Bestiary
âJulie Orlemanski
18 Ecocriticism and Enormous Animals in the Second Family Bestiary
âAlexandra Paddock
19 Insects in and around the Bestiaries
âDebra Higgs Strickland
20 Afterword
âErica Fudge
Index
Postgraduate students and researchers in Art History, Book History, Medieval History, Medieval Literature, French, English, Theology and Religious Studies, Literary Criticism, Animal Studies, Jewish Studies, Islamic Studies, Manuscript Studies