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Animal Skins and the Reading Self in Medieval Latin and French Bestiaries

Sarah Kay (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

232 Seiten

2017
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-43673-9 (ISBN)

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Just like we do today, people in medieval times struggled with the concept of human exceptionalism and the significance of other creatures. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the medieval bestiary. Sarah Kay's exploration of French and Latin bestiaries offers fresh insight into how this prominent genre challenged the boundary between its human readers and other animals. Bestiaries present accounts of animals whose fantastic behaviors should be imitated or avoided, depending on the given trait. In a highly original argument, Kay suggests that the association of beasts with books is here both literal and material, as nearly all surviving bestiaries are copied on parchment made of animal skin, which also resembles human skin. Using a rich array of examples, she shows how the content and materiality of bestiaries are linked due to the continual references in the texts to the skins of other animals, as well as the ways in which the pages themselves repeatedly and at times, it would seem, deliberately intervene in the reading process.
A vital contribution to animal studies and medieval manuscript studies, this book sheds new light on the European bestiary and its profound power to shape readers' own identities.

Sarah Kay is professor of French at New York University. Her many books include Parrots and Nightingales: Troubadour Quotations and the Development of European Poetry and The Place of Thought: The Complexity of One in Late Medieval French Didactic Poetry.

Erscheinungsdatum	21.04.2017
Reihe/Serie	Emersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith
Sprache	englisch
Maße	17 x 24 mm
Gewicht	539 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
ISBN-10	0-226-43673-X / 022643673X
ISBN-13	978-0-226-43673-9 / 9780226436739
Zustand	Neuware