Literary Criticism - General & Miscellaneous, Natural History - General & Miscellaneous, Animals - General & Miscellaneous, Medieval Latin Literature - Literary Criticism, Medieval Literature - General & Miscellaneous - Literary Criticism, Folklore & Myth
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Overview
Bestiaries are among the most interesting and varied books of the Middle Ages. Collections of illustrations depicting real and mythical animals and plants accompanied a text which can be traced back to the earliest centuries of the Christian era. Dr. Baxter, employing a completely fresh and comprehensive approach, has undertaken extensive new research into a large corpus of Bestiaries, applying modern narrative theory to their texts and images to reveal the messages encoded in themmessages which were systematically altered as Bestiaries were expanded and restructured. By applying the results of this analysis to medieval library records, he has been able to identify important centres of Bestiary use, and to present a radically different picture of what Bestiaries were to their medieval users.Editorials
Booknews
Challenging the prevailing view that they are keys to the iconography of contemporary sculpture or early attempts at zoology, art historian Baxter takes a completely fresh approach to the collections of illustrations depicting and texts describing real and mythical animals and plants. He applies modern narrative theory to the texts and images to find messages encoded in them, and argues that those messages were systematically altered as the Bestiaries were expanded and restructured. Distributed in the US by Books International. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.Book Details
Published
September 28, 1998
Publisher
Stroud : Sutton Pub. ; 1998.
Pages
256
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780750918534