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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Salter, David, 1969- Holy and noble beasts. Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, NY : D.S. Brewer, 2001 (OCoLC)606633810 |
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| 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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