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Representing Beasts in Early Medieval England and Scandinavia
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Series: Anglo-Saxon Studies, Book 29
Literary CriticismAnthropologyEuropean Art
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ISBN10: 178327008X
ISBN13: 9781783270088
Publisher: Boydell Press
Published: Jul 16 2015
Pages: 312
Weight: 1.41
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.50 Depth: 9.80
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781783270088
Publisher: Boydell Press
Published: Jul 16 2015
Pages: 312
Weight: 1.41
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.50 Depth: 9.80
Language: English
Essays on the depiction of animals, birds and insects in early medieval material culture, from texts to carvings to the landscape itself. For people in the early Middle Ages, the earth, air, water and ether teemed with other beings. Some of these were sentient creatures that swam, flew, slithered or stalked through the same environments inhabited by their human contemporaries. Others were objects that a modern beholder would be unlikely to think of as living things, but could yet be considered to possess a vitality that rendered them potent. Still others were things half glimpsed on a dark night or seen only in the mind's eye; strange beasts that haunted dreams and visions or inhabited exotic lands beyond the compass of everyday knowledge.
This book discusses the various ways in which the early English and Scandinavians thought about and represented these other inhabitants of their world, and considers the multi-faceted nature of the relationship between people and beasts. Drawing on the evidence of material culture, art, language, literature, place-names and landscapes, the studies presented here reveal a world where the boundaries between humans, animals, monsters and objects were blurred and often permeable, and where to represent the bestial could be to holda mirror to the self. Michael D.J. Bintley is Senior Lecturer in Medieval Literature at Canterbury Christ Church University; Thomas J.T. Williams is a doctoral researcher at UCL's Institute of Archaeology. Contributors: Noël Adams, John Baker, Michael D. J. Bintley, Sue Brunning, László Sándor Chardonnens, Della Hooke, Eric Lacey, Richard North, Marijane Osborn, Victoria Symons, Thomas J. Williams
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