Bestiaries of the Middle Ages.
Threshold| N° d'inventaire | 15340 |
| Format | 25 x 35 |
| Détails | 235 p., illustrations, publisher's cloth binding. |
| Publication | Paris, 2019 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782021414097 |
The deer lives for a thousand years. The wild boar carries its horns in its mouth. Butterflies are flying flowers. The squirrel is a diabolical, lazy, lecherous, and greedy animal. Medieval zoology is not modern zoology. Many notions that are familiar to us today were unknown at the time. The Middle Ages were very talkative about animals. In this regard, the illuminated bestiaries, born during the High Middle Ages but whose popularity reached its peak in the 12th and 13th centuries, are the richest evidence. The work opens with a general introduction, then focuses on the composition of medieval bestiaries and begins a thematic study of the species, where their physical and moral properties, their symbolic and religious dimension are described, highlighting different stories, beliefs, or anecdotes concerning them. Each animal is accompanied by one or more miniatures, the whole constituting an abundant, original, and particularly attractive iconography for our modern eye.
The deer lives for a thousand years. The wild boar carries its horns in its mouth. Butterflies are flying flowers. The squirrel is a diabolical, lazy, lecherous, and greedy animal. Medieval zoology is not modern zoology. Many notions that are familiar to us today were unknown at the time. The Middle Ages were very talkative about animals. In this regard, the illuminated bestiaries, born during the High Middle Ages but whose popularity reached its peak in the 12th and 13th centuries, are the richest evidence. The work opens with a general introduction, then focuses on the composition of medieval bestiaries and begins a thematic study of the species, where their physical and moral properties, their symbolic and religious dimension are described, highlighting different stories, beliefs, or anecdotes concerning them. Each animal is accompanied by one or more miniatures, the whole constituting an abundant, original, and particularly attractive iconography for our modern eye.