Textual and Artistic Representations of Guide Dogs in Northwestern Europe, 1100-1500

This book provides the first full-length exploration of guide dogs in medieval textual and artistic sources. It is sometimes suggested that guide dogs did not exist during the medieval period, and most of the research that does recognise their existence does so using a small set of examples. This book reveals new information about disability in the premodern world by introducing and analysing a corpus of images and textual references to guide dogs, all of which appear in manuscripts created during the late medieval period (here defined as 1100-1500) in the specific areas under investigation (France, the British Isles, Belgium, and The Netherlands). Exploring this evidence using both quantitative and qualitative approaches, which is the goal of this study, is important, because the history of guide dogs and their representations is directly relevant to several present-day social issues and to the growing field of Disability Studies.

Table des matières

1: Representations of Guide Dogs Before 1100 AD.- 2: Representations of Guide Dogs Between 1100 and 1500.- 3: Characteristics, Associations, and Roles of Medieval Guide Dogs.- 4: The Manuscript Contexts of Medieval Guide Dogs.- 5: Representations of Guide Dogs Between 1501 and 1650.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Krista Milne
• Edition: Springer, Berlin
• Langues: Anglais, Allemand
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 10.09.2025
• EAN: 9783031947247
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3194724-7
• Pages: 141
• Illustrations: VI, 141 p. 4 illus., 3 illus. in color.
• Catégories: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Histoire > Histoire par région/pays; Literaturwissenschaft: Antike und Mittelalter, Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaften / Museumskunde, Sonderpädagogik: körperliche Beeinträchtigungen, Open Access, Education and Disability, History of the Book, Medieval Literature, History of Medieval Europe, medieval English literature, medieval disability studies, medieval representations of blindness and visual impairments, pre-modern disability studies, blindness in medieval literature, medieval French literature, disability in medieval art, medieval manuscripts, medieval guide dogs