The Medieval World of Nature (eBook, PDF)

A Book of Essays
Redaktion: Salisbury, Joyce E.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Originally published in 1993, The Medieval World of Nature looks at how the natural world was viewed by medieval society. The book presents the argument that the pragmatic medieval view of the natural world of animals and plants, existed simply to serve medieval society. It discusses the medieval concept of animals as food, labour, and sport and addresses how the biblical charge of assuming dominion over animals and plants, was rooted in the medieval sensibility of control. The book also looks at the idea of plants and animals as not only pragmatic, but as allegories within the medieval world, utilizing animals to draw morality tales, which were viewed with as much importance as scientific information. This book provides a unique and interesting look at the everyday medieval world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429584237
• Artikelnr.: 57071053

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