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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"bestiary"”.
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Reading in the animal vernacular: the bestiary as lay genre in medieval England
… is evidence of a widespread understanding of the bestiary’s system of imagery and moralizations by the fourteenth century, which exclusively monastic use does not explain. The animal imagery that appears in vernacular media requires a nuanced understanding from the audience in order to have any …
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"The Medieval Bestiary In The Golden Age: Allegory And Emblem In Gracian's ""el Criticon"" (physiologus, Carnival, Grotesque, Beast, Mask)"
… an examina- tion of the role of the medieval bestiary and emblem literature in El Criticon, this thesis endeavors to prove that such a premise is unacceptable.
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O, Beastly Jew!: Allegorical Anti-Judaism in Thirteenth Century English Bestiaries
… anti-Judaic allegories found in the medieval bestiary genre, demonstrates the transformations of these allegories within the English scriptoria, and examines how these allegories reflect contemporary suspicions of the Anglo Jewish population. In the thirteenth century, the bestiary experienced …
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Polecats, Poison, and Prejudice: Naturalized Anti-Judaic Tropes in Chaucer's Pardoner's Tale
… additional threads of scholarship on medieval bestiary lore, blasphemy, poison, the Black Death, to further characterize the cultural prejudices against Jews present in <em>The Pardoner’s Tale</em> and its reflection of the intensity of religious prejudice entrenched in fourteenth-century …
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The misericords of Beverley Minister : a corpus of folkloric imagery and its cultural milieu, with special reference to the influence of Northern European iconography on Late Medieval and Early Modern English woodwork
… as 'The Fool and Follies', 'Satires', 'The bestiary' 'Exempla', etc., leads to the isolation of a small number of motifs which are seen not to belong to the native tradition. These non-English motifs are traced to two main sources, the border woodcuts in early Parisian printed Horae and …
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Aspects of Animal Imagery in Petrarch’s 'Rerum Vulgarium Fragmenta'
… It examines the set of zoological images of bestiary derivation that Petrarch shares with the troubadours, specifically focusing on Petrarch’s debt to Arnaut Daniel. Chapter 3 explores the role of allegory in Petrarch’s animal imagery as compared with Dante’s poetry. Chapter 4 considers how …
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The Middle English Physiologus: A Critical Translation and Commentary
The tradition of the "Physiologus" is an influential one, and informed medieval literature —not to mention medieval art and architecture—more than we know. The "Physiologus" was "an established source of Medieval sacred iconography and didactic poetry" and still continues to rank among the "books …
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CARTOGRAFIA DELL'IMMAGINARIO. SPAZI BIOGRAFICI, LETTERARI E TOPOGRAFICI DEL GATTOPARDO.
La finalità che ci si è prefissati con questo lavoro è quella di proporre una nuova ricognizione sull'universo tomasiano. La tesi è stata suddivisa in tre sezioni specifiche, corrispondenti ad altrettanti linee di ricerca. Nella prima, la più articolata, che si intitola Spazi letterari, si è …
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"Wood Leoun" . . . "Crueel Tigre": Animal Imagery and Metaphor in "The Knight's Tale"
<p>The people of the Middle Ages believed animals were disconnected from themselves in terms of ability to reason and ability to resist passions. Humans and animals were created by God, but he bestowed man with a soul and the ability to resist earthly delights. When men were described in terms of …