| 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 |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed Dec. 09, 2016) |
| Subject |
Bestiaries -- History and criticism
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Didactic literature, Latin (Medieval and modern) -- History and criticism
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Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism.
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Animals, Mythical, in literature.
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Animals in literature.
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Animals -- Folklore
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HISTORY -- Medieval.
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Animals
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Animals in literature
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Animals, Mythical, in literature
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Bestiaries
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Didactic literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)
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Literature, Medieval
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Folklore
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Clark, Willene B
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McMunn, Meredith T
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| ISBN |
9781512805512 |
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1512805513 |
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