Medieval Bestiaries

New Approaches

Buch | Hardcover

346 Seiten

2025
Brill (Verlag)
9789004429697 (ISBN)

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Medieval Bestiaries: New Approaches newly illuminates the genre’s links to animal-thinking across Christian, Jewish, and Islamic worlds. Attentive to both texts and images, its interdisciplinary essays probe the bestiary’s compositional complexities and reveal its overlooked importance for understanding medieval human – animal relations.

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together an impressive range of multi-disciplinary expertise, the authors provide fresh perspectives on previously unpublished or under-explored bestiary texts, images, methods of production, cross-literary influences, and moralized messaging.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.

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

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

Erscheinungsdatum	07.08.2025
Reihe/Serie	Reading Medieval Sources ; 9
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	765 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
ISBN-13	9789004429697 / 9789004429697
Zustand	Neuware