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Birds, he argues, are relevant to the medieval mind because their unique properties align them with important religious and secular themes: seabirds that inspire the forlorn Anglo-Saxon pilgrim; unnamed species that confound riddling taxonomies; a belligerent owl who speaks out against unflattering literary portraits.
Birds featured in many aspects of medieval people's lives, not least in their poetry. But despite their familiar presence in literary culture, it is still ...
4 mar 2020 · a valiant attempt at focussing exclusively on the birds and their special role within the medieval discourse on animals and recommended reading for all interested in matters animal.
In antiquity and the Middle Ages, each animal species had its place and function in the cosmos, but with the rise of modern zoology in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, humans tended to take an empirical rather than anthropomorphic view of animals.
First full-length study of birds and their metamorphoses as treated in a wide range of medieval poetry, from the Anglo-Saxons to Chaucer and Gower.
bird was looked upon as an augur of supernatural power especially in connection with the curing of disease. The early belief of a bird with miraculous curative powers was so well established in superstition that it almost passed for natural history. This legend can be traced in classical sources to a bird called KARADRIOS (charadrius). In order ...
11 lis 2016 · The contributors write about the tradition of one of the bestiary's birds, Parisian production of the manuscripts, bestiary animals in a liturgical book, theological as well as secular interpretations of beasts, bestiary creatures in literature, and new perspectives on the bestiary in other genres.
