Introducing Medieval Animal Names

Ben Parsons (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

160 Seiten

2025
University of Wales Press (Verlag)
9781837722617 (ISBN)

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What did medieval people call the animals they lived and worked with? Why did they give them the names they did? This book sets out to answer these questions. Drawing evidence from literary, documentary and material sources, it surveys the surviving evidence of pet-naming from the period, as well as examining the labels given to livestock and working animals, and the folk-names given to wild birds and beasts. Alongside building up a corpus of names, the conventions that directed animal naming in the Middle Ages are considered, as well as how proper nouns behaved when given to non-human organisms. Through its inquiry, the book lays bare the period’s larger attitudes towards animals, their functions and identities, and at the same time sheds light on how the Middle Ages conceived the natural world as a whole and its relationship with human beings and their culture.

Ben Parsons is Associate Professor at the University of Leicester. He has published widely on medieval and Renaissance culture, including the books Punishment and Medieval Education (2018) and Two Middle English Prayer Cycles (2023).

1: Where Are You?: Naming and its Questions
2: Uncommon Nouns: Hunting for Animal Names
3: Former Address: Naming Before the Middle Ages
4: Type Casting: Naming and Species
5: Improper Nouns: Human and Animal Names
6: Final Call: Conclusions
7: Select Bibliography

Erscheinungsdatum	17.06.2025
Reihe/Serie	Medieval Animals
Zusatzinfo	Not illustrated
Verlagsort	Wales
Sprache	englisch
Maße	129 x 198 mm
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-13	9781837722617 / 9781837722617
Zustand	Neuware