The Mark of the Beast: The Medieval Bestiary in Art, Life, and Literature

ISBN-13: 9780415928946 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 252 str.

Debra Hassig

Opis

The medieval bestiary was the culmination and apogee of allegorical functions for animals, assembling stories and pictures of beasts and birds for purposes of moral instruction and courtly entertainment. It is indisputable that the bestiaries were an important medieval contribution to didactic religious literature. But far from comprising an isolated, specialist's genre available only to the religious and literate elite, bestiaries addressed concerns central to virtually all walks of Christian life.

O autorze

Debra Hassig Ph.D. is a Reader at the Institute of Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh