The Medieval World of Nature: A Book of Essays

ISBN-13: 9780367187927 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 278 str.

Joyce E. Salisbury

Opis

Originally published in 1993, The Medieval World of Nature looks at how the natural world was viewed by medieval society.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements  Introduction  Part I: Animals  1. The Mirror of Nature Distorted: The Medieval Artist’s Dilemma in Depicting Animals  2. Falconry and Medieval Views of Nature  3. The Protohistory of Pike in Western Culture  4. Animals Images in Gottfried von Strassburg’s Tristan: Structure and Meaning in Metaphor  Part II: Animals and People  5. Martyrs and Monks, Insects, and Animals  6. The Shadow of Reason: Explanations of Intelligent Animal Behavior in the Thirteenth Century  7. The Goddess Natura in the Occitan Lyric  8. Wild Folk and Lunatics in Medieval Romance  Part III: People and the Land   9. The Land, Who Owns It?  10. Cultured Nature in Chaucer’s Early Dream-Poems  11. Dante’s Utopian Landscape: The Garden of God  12. Father God and Mother Earth: Nature Mysticism in the Anglo-Saxon World  Notes on Contributors  Index