Joyce E. Salisbury

The Medieval World of Nature

A Book of Essays

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Originally published in 1993, The Medieval World of Nature looks at how the natural world was viewed by medieval society.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 492g
• ISBN-13: 9780367187910
• ISBN-10: 0367187914
• Artikelnr.: 75706893

Inhaltsangabe

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