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Holy and noble beasts : encounters with animals in medieval literature
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Holy and noble beasts : encounters with animals in medieval literature

Author: David Salter
Publisher: Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, NY : D.S. Brewer, 2001.
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Explores the range of attitudes towards animals and the natural world that were current in western Europe during the later middle ages. This book argues that through their depictions of animals,  Read more...

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Salter, David, 1969-
Holy and noble beasts.
Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, NY : D.S. Brewer, 2001
(OCoLC)606633810
Named Person: Alexander, the Great; Alexander, King of Macedonia
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: David Salter
ISBN: 0859916243 9780859916240
OCLC Number: 46732382
Description: vii, 168 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents: Acknowledgement Introduction 1 Part 1: Return to Paradise: Animals in the Lives of the Saints 1. St Jerome and the Lion 13 2. The Patron Saint of Ecologists: St Francis and the Wolf of Gubbio 30 3. Dominion over Animals: The Taming of 'Brother Ass' 41 4. Reading the Book of Nature: St Francis, the Bible, and the Natural World 49 Part 2: Knights and the Brute Creation: Nobility and Sanctity in Four Middle English Romances 5. Romance and Hagiography: The Vision of St Eustace and Sir Isumbras 68 6. Sir Gowther 90 7. Octavian 105 8. Sir Orfeo 125 Part 3: Nature and Supernature: The Middle English Romances of Alexander the Great 9. Alexander: Romance and History 143 10. Alexander's Miraculous Conception and Birth 158 11. The Wonders of the East 172 Conclusion: Representing Nature in Medieval Literature 189 Bibliography 194 Index
Responsibility: David Salter.
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