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Animal Skins and the Reading Self in Medieval Latin and French Bestiaries
Af: Sarah Kay
Engelsk Hardback
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Animal Skins and the Reading Self in Medieval Latin and French Bestiaries
Af: Sarah Kay
Engelsk Hardback

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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.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
232
ISBN-13:
9780226436739
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
022643673X
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Udg. Dato:
24 feb 2017
Længde:
23mm
Bredde:
236mm
Højde:
162mm
Forlag:
The University of Chicago Press
Oplagsdato:
24 feb 2017
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