Animal Encounters : Contacts and Concepts in Medieval Britain.
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- computer
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- 9780812206302
- 820.9/3620902
- PR275.A47 -- C73 2013eb
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Notes on Citations -- Introduction -- 1. Cohabitation -- 2. Wolf, Man, and Wolf-Man -- 3. A Bestiary's Taxonomy of Creatures -- 4. The Noble hunt as a ritual Practice -- 5. Falcon and Princess -- 6. Knight and horse -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z -- Acknowledgments.
Thinking about animals and living with them are vital aspects of medieval experience. Animal Encounters explores saints' lives, hunting treatises, bestiaries, and other genres to discover how various species take part in culture making, revealing that cross-species relationships transform both their animal and their human participants.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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