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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 ...
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.
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.
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.
Birds in Medieval English Poetry - October 2018.
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.
