The Medieval World of Nature (eBook, PDF)

A Book of Essays
Redaktion: Salisbury, Joyce E.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Originally published in 1993, The Medieval World of Nature looks at how the natural world was viewed by medieval society.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429584237
• Artikelnr.: 57071053

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Introduction Part I: Animals 1. The Mirror of Nature
Distorted: The Medieval Artist's Dilemma in Depicting Animals 2. Falconry
and Medieval Views of Nature 3. The Protohistory of Pike in Western Culture
4. Animals Images in Gottfried von Strassburg's Tristan: Structure and
Meaning in Metaphor Part II: Animals and People 5. Martyrs and Monks,
Insects, and Animals 6. The Shadow of Reason: Explanations of Intelligent
Animal Behavior in the Thirteenth Century 7. The Goddess Natura in the
Occitan Lyric 8. Wild Folk and Lunatics in Medieval Romance Part III:
People and the Land 9. The Land, Who Owns It? 10. Cultured Nature in
Chaucer's Early Dream-Poems 11. Dante's Utopian Landscape: The Garden of
God 12. Father God and Mother Earth: Nature Mysticism in the Anglo-Saxon
World Notes on Contributors Index