Product details:
| ISBN13: | 9789004720848 |
| ISBN10: | 9004720847 |
| Binding: | Hardback |
| No. of pages: | pages |
| Size: | 235x155 mm |
| Weight: | 1 g |
| Language: | English |
| 700 |
Category:
Humans and Other Animals in the Middle Ages
An Introduction and Reader
Series:
Explorations in Medieval Culture;
27;
Publisher: BRILL
Date of Publication: 27 February 2025
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Short description:
A wide-ranging introduction and sourcebook on medieval European human attitudes to animals, which will be useful to both researchers and newcomers to the field. Included are text extracts from theologians, philosophers, encyclopaedists, bestiarists, hagiographers, chroniclers, huntsmen, agriculturalists, cooks and others.
Long description:
This sourcebook serves both as an introduction and a wide-ranging reference work for human attitudes to nonhuman animals in Latin Europe during the Middle Ages. Under twelve headings, it includes numerous translated passages from Latin and vernacular texts that reflect human conceptions and uses of other animals during the period 300-1520. Theologians, philosophers, encyclopaedists, bestiarists, hagiographers, chroniclers, huntsmen and writers of agricultural manuals, cookbooks and plague treatises all had something to say about the place of nonhuman animals in their world and their interaction with humans, or simply recorded incidentally what they did in their writings. All are represented here.
Table of Contents:
Dedication
Acknowledgements
List of Figures
Introduction
1 Notes
1 The Genesis of the Animals
1 The Medieval Conception of the Biblical Creation
2 The Naming of the Animals
3 Animals Wild and Tame
2 Animals in Medieval Natural Philosophy
1 Defining the Animal
2 Categorizing Animals
3 Animals in the scala naturae
4 Human and Nonhuman Souls and Their Faculties
5 Animal Society
3 Animals as Exemplars
1 Animals as Didactic Tools
2 The Symmetry of Nature
3 Physiologus and the Bestiaries
4 The Medieval Encyclopaedia of Nature
5 Animals in Homilies and Sermons
6 Physiognomy
7 Symbols of Ferocity, Valour and Lineage
8 Animal Behaviour as Portents
4 Animals in Field, Park, and Forest
1 Animal Husbandry
2 The Lot of the Working Animal
3 Foresta and Parks
5 Hunting
1 Defining the Medieval Hunt
2 Quarry Animals
3 Animals Who Assisted in the Hunt
4 Medieval Conservation?
5 Hunting of Rival Predators
6 Illegal Hunting
7 Criticism of Hunting
6 Animals and Law
1 Natural Law
2 Animals in the ?Laws of the Barbarians?
3 Animals in High Medieval Law
4 Human Ownership of Animals and the Right to Hunt Them
5 Trials, Execution and Cursing of Nonhuman Animals
6 Execution of Animals for Involvement in Bestiality
7 Beast-Humans and Human Beasts
1 Monstrous Beings, Monstrous Races
2 Metamorphosis
3 Zoophilia
4 Offspring of Human-Beast Unions
5 Humans Acting Beasts
6 Humans Compared to Beasts
7 Beasts Representing Humans
8 Animals as Food
1 Eating as Differentiator of Humans from Other Animals
2 The Old Law Dietary Restrictions in Christianity
3 Cultural Taboos
4 Meat-Eating, Lust and Gluttony
5 Meat for the Starving
6 Human Meat, Animal Meat
7 Animals in the Human Diet
8 Entertaining Meals
9 Food Waste Management
10 Animal Fast Food
9 Animals, Disease and Medicine
1 Animals as Sources of Medicinal Cures or Causes of Injury and Disease
2 Care of Domesticated Animals
3 Animal Self-Help
4 Animals as Medical Metaphors
5 Epidemics among Domestic Animals and the Human Perception of Them
10 Animals and Saints
11 Animals for Show and Companionship
1 Menageries
2 Animals as Companions to Humans
3 Animals in the Cloister
4 Pets of the Secular Aristocracy
5 Naming Household Animals
6 Animals Punished as Surrogates for Human Owners
7 Animals for Entertainment
12 Animals at War
1 Warlike Animals?
2 The Warhorse
3 Other Animals in Battle
4 Feeding the ?Beasts of Battle?
5 Animal Messengers
6 Animal Attrition: on the March, in Camp and in Sieges
7 Animals Stolen and Slaughtered
Quoted Authors
Bibliography of Works from Which Passages Are Quoted
Figures
Index
Acknowledgements
List of Figures
Introduction
1 Notes
1 The Genesis of the Animals
1 The Medieval Conception of the Biblical Creation
2 The Naming of the Animals
3 Animals Wild and Tame
2 Animals in Medieval Natural Philosophy
1 Defining the Animal
2 Categorizing Animals
3 Animals in the scala naturae
4 Human and Nonhuman Souls and Their Faculties
5 Animal Society
3 Animals as Exemplars
1 Animals as Didactic Tools
2 The Symmetry of Nature
3 Physiologus and the Bestiaries
4 The Medieval Encyclopaedia of Nature
5 Animals in Homilies and Sermons
6 Physiognomy
7 Symbols of Ferocity, Valour and Lineage
8 Animal Behaviour as Portents
4 Animals in Field, Park, and Forest
1 Animal Husbandry
2 The Lot of the Working Animal
3 Foresta and Parks
5 Hunting
1 Defining the Medieval Hunt
2 Quarry Animals
3 Animals Who Assisted in the Hunt
4 Medieval Conservation?
5 Hunting of Rival Predators
6 Illegal Hunting
7 Criticism of Hunting
6 Animals and Law
1 Natural Law
2 Animals in the ?Laws of the Barbarians?
3 Animals in High Medieval Law
4 Human Ownership of Animals and the Right to Hunt Them
5 Trials, Execution and Cursing of Nonhuman Animals
6 Execution of Animals for Involvement in Bestiality
7 Beast-Humans and Human Beasts
1 Monstrous Beings, Monstrous Races
2 Metamorphosis
3 Zoophilia
4 Offspring of Human-Beast Unions
5 Humans Acting Beasts
6 Humans Compared to Beasts
7 Beasts Representing Humans
8 Animals as Food
1 Eating as Differentiator of Humans from Other Animals
2 The Old Law Dietary Restrictions in Christianity
3 Cultural Taboos
4 Meat-Eating, Lust and Gluttony
5 Meat for the Starving
6 Human Meat, Animal Meat
7 Animals in the Human Diet
8 Entertaining Meals
9 Food Waste Management
10 Animal Fast Food
9 Animals, Disease and Medicine
1 Animals as Sources of Medicinal Cures or Causes of Injury and Disease
2 Care of Domesticated Animals
3 Animal Self-Help
4 Animals as Medical Metaphors
5 Epidemics among Domestic Animals and the Human Perception of Them
10 Animals and Saints
11 Animals for Show and Companionship
1 Menageries
2 Animals as Companions to Humans
3 Animals in the Cloister
4 Pets of the Secular Aristocracy
5 Naming Household Animals
6 Animals Punished as Surrogates for Human Owners
7 Animals for Entertainment
12 Animals at War
1 Warlike Animals?
2 The Warhorse
3 Other Animals in Battle
4 Feeding the ?Beasts of Battle?
5 Animal Messengers
6 Animal Attrition: on the March, in Camp and in Sieges
7 Animals Stolen and Slaughtered
Quoted Authors
Bibliography of Works from Which Passages Are Quoted
Figures
Index