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Discover the fascinating world of medieval birds and their captivating significance during the Middle Ages. In this article, we will take a journey back in time to explore the avian wonders that graced the skies of medieval Europe.
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 often assumed that these representations have little to do with the real natural world.
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.
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.
25 wrz 2018 · 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. Birds featured in many aspects of medieval people’s lives, not least in their poetry.
As much as their mammalian fellows, birds were participants in rural and urban living in a time, as one historian goes so far as to say, in which ‘animals and humans shared space, food, famines, work, and weather conditions more intensely’ than any other historical age except human prehistory.
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 ...
