Medieval World of Nature - A Book of Essays

Zusammenfassung Originally published in 1993, The Medieval World of Nature looks at how the natural world was viewed by medieval society. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Introduction Part I: Animals 1. The Mirror of Nature Distorted: The Medieval Artist’s Dilemma in Depicting Animals 2. Falconry and Medieval Views of Nature 3. The Protohistory of Pike in Western Culture 4. Animals Images in Gottfried von Strassburg’s Tristan : Structure and Meaning in Metaphor Part II: Animals and People 5. Martyrs and Monks, Insects, and Animals 6. The Shadow of Reason: Explanations of Intelligent Animal Behavior in the Thirteenth Century 7. The Goddess Natura in the Occitan Lyric 8. Wild Folk and Lunatics in Medieval Romance Part III: People and the Land 9. The Land, Who Owns It? 10. Cultured Nature in Chaucer’s Early Dream-Poems 11. Dante’s Utopian Landscape: The Garden of God 12. Father God and Mother Earth: Nature Mysticism in the Anglo-Saxon World Notes on Contributors Index

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• Authors: Joyce E. Salisbury, Joyce E. (Professor Emeritus of History Salisbury, Salisbury Joyce E.
• Assisted by: Joyce E. Salisbury (Editor), Salisbury Joyce E. (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.07.2019
• EAN: 9780367187910
• ISBN: 978-0-367-18791-0
• No. of pages: 278
• Series: Routledge Library Editions: The Medieval World
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; NATURE / General, History: specific events & topics, NATURE / Essays, HISTORY / General, CE period up to c 1500, Medieval History, History: specific events and topics, History and Archaeology