Introducing the Medieval Ass (eBook)

Kathryn L. Smithies (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2020
128 Seiten
University of Wales Press (Verlag)
9781786836243 (ISBN)

Infos

Introducing the Medieval Ass considers the fascinating ways that medieval people understood the ass, or donkey. A beast of burden and metaphor for human behaviour, medieval authors used the ass’s assumed traits – irrationality, humility, stubbornness, sexual perversion – to educate, entertain, and enthral.

Autor

Introducing the Medieval Ass is written as an introduction – as such its remit is to reach both the scholar and the interested lay reader. This book will appeal to a variety of readerships by presenting a fascinating topic in an accessible and lucid manner which educates, entertains, and enthrals – exactly as medieval asses did through their presence in encyclopaedias, religious and philosophical texts, and humorous and satirical tales.

Inhalt

List of Illustrations
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Natural World of the Ass
Chapter 2: The Religious Ass
Chapter 3: The Scholastic Ass
Chapter 4: The Ass in Literature
Post-script: The Medieval Ass in the Post-Medieval Era.
Conclusion
Bibliography

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.9.2020
• Reihe/Serie: Medieval Animals
• Reihe/Serie: Medieval Animals
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Mittelalter
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Schlagworte: ASS • introducing • kathryn • L • Medieval • Smithies
• ISBN-13: 9781786836243 / 9781786836243