Medieval Bestiaries

New Approaches
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-42969-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 9, 388 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

Reihe: Reading Medieval Sources

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together an impressive range of multi-disciplinary expertise, the authors provide fresh perspectives on previously unpublished or under-explored bestiary texts, images, methods of production, cross-literary influences, and moralized messaging.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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Strickland, Debra Higgs

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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).