Beasts and Birds of the Middle Ages : : The Bestiary and Its Legacy / / Meredith T. McMunn, Willene B. Clark.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
• HerausgeberIn: Clark, Willene B.,; McMunn, Meredith T.,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016]; ©1989
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Edition: Reprint 2016
• Language: English
• Series: The Middle Ages Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (228 p.) :; 50 illus.
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; 1. The Art of Memory and the Bestiary --; 2. The Aviary-Bestiary at the Houghton Library, Harvard --; 3. Workshop Methods in English Late Twelfth-Century Illumination and the Production of Luxury Bestiaries --; 4 The Phoenix: Its Nature and Its Place in the Tradition of the Physiologus --; 5. Spring, Love, Birdsong: The Nightingale in Two Cultures --; 6. Duel of Bestiaries --; 7. An Elephant in the Litany: Further Thoughts on an English Book of Hours in the Walters Art Gallery (W. 102) --; 8. Bestiary Influences in Two Thirteenth- Century Romances --; 9. Animal Symbolism in the Prophecies of Merlin --; 10. Notes on Beasts in the Histoire ancienne jusqu’à César of Rogier, Châtelain de Lille --; 11. Peacocks and Preachers: Analytic Technique in Marcus of Orvieto’s Liber de moralitatibus, Vatican lot. MS S93S --; Appendix: Manuscripts of Western Medieval Bestiary Versions --; Bibliography of Bestiary Studies Since 1962 --; Contributors --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781512805512; 9783110442526
• DOI: 10.9783/9781512805512
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Meredith T. McMunn, Willene B. Clark.