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Title Beasts and Birds of the Middle Ages : the Bestiary and Its Legacy / Meredith T. McMunn, Willene B. Clark
Published Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]
©1989

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Description 1 online resource : 50 illustrations
Series The Middle Ages Series
Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Art of Memory and the Bestiary -- 2. The Aviary-Bestiary at the Houghton Library, Harvard -- 3. Workshop Methods in English Late Twelfth-Century Illumination and the Production of Luxury Bestiaries -- 4 The Phoenix: Its Nature and Its Place in the Tradition of the Physiologus -- 5. Spring, Love, Birdsong: The Nightingale in Two Cultures -- 6. Duel of Bestiaries -- 7. An Elephant in the Litany: Further Thoughts on an English Book of Hours in the Walters Art Gallery (W. 102) -- 8. Bestiary Influences in Two Thirteenth- Century Romances -- 9. Animal Symbolism in the Prophecies of Merlin -- 10. Notes on Beasts in the Histoire ancienne jusqu'à César of Rogier, Châtelain de Lille -- 11. Peacocks and Preachers: Analytic Technique in Marcus of Orvieto's Liber de moralitatibus, Vatican lot. MS S93S -- Appendix: Manuscripts of Western Medieval Bestiary Versions -- Bibliography of Bestiary Studies Since 1962 -- Contributors -- Index
Notes In English
Online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed Dec. 09, 2016)
Subject Bestiaries -- History and criticism
Didactic literature, Latin (Medieval and modern) -- History and criticism
Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism.
Animals, Mythical, in literature.
Animals in literature.
Animals -- Folklore
HISTORY -- Medieval.
Animals
Animals in literature
Animals, Mythical, in literature
Bestiaries
Didactic literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Literature, Medieval
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Folklore
Form Electronic book
Author Clark, Willene B
McMunn, Meredith T
ISBN 9781512805512
1512805513