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Animal Encounters : Contacts and Concepts in Medieval Britain.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: The Middle Ages SeriesPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012Copyright date: ©2013Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (280 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780812206302
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Animal EncountersDDC classification:
  • 820.9/3620902
LOC classification:
  • PR275.A47 -- C73 2013eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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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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