Author: Hannele Klemettilä
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317551915
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
This book explores views of the natural world in the late Middle Ages, especially as expressed in Livre de chasse (Book of the Hunt), the most influential hunting book of the era. It shows that killing and maiming, suffering and the death of animals were not insignificant topics to late medieval men, but constituted a complex set of issues, and could provoke very contradictory thoughts and feelings that varied according social and cultural milieus and particular cases and circumstances.
Animals and Hunters in the Late Middle Ages
Author: Hannele Klemettilä
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317551915
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
This book explores views of the natural world in the late Middle Ages, especially as expressed in Livre de chasse (Book of the Hunt), the most influential hunting book of the era. It shows that killing and maiming, suffering and the death of animals were not insignificant topics to late medieval men, but constituted a complex set of issues, and could provoke very contradictory thoughts and feelings that varied according social and cultural milieus and particular cases and circumstances.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317551915
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
This book explores views of the natural world in the late Middle Ages, especially as expressed in Livre de chasse (Book of the Hunt), the most influential hunting book of the era. It shows that killing and maiming, suffering and the death of animals were not insignificant topics to late medieval men, but constituted a complex set of issues, and could provoke very contradictory thoughts and feelings that varied according social and cultural milieus and particular cases and circumstances.
The Beast Within
Author: Joyce E. Salisbury
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780415780957
Category : Animals and civilization
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This important book offers a unique exploration of the use of and attitude towards animals from the 4th to the 14th centuries, exploring the varying roles of animals as property, food and sexual objects, and the complex relationship that this created with the people and world around them.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780415780957
Category : Animals and civilization
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This important book offers a unique exploration of the use of and attitude towards animals from the 4th to the 14th centuries, exploring the varying roles of animals as property, food and sexual objects, and the complex relationship that this created with the people and world around them.
A Cultural History of Animals in the Medieval Age
Author: Brigitte Pohl-Resl
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781350049512
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Explores the sacred and the symbolic (totem, sacrifice, status and popular beliefs); hunting; domestication (taming, breeding, labour and companionship); entertainment and exhibitions (the menagerie, zoos, circuses and carnivals); science and specimens (research, education, collections and museums); philosophical beliefs; and artistic representations.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781350049512
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Explores the sacred and the symbolic (totem, sacrifice, status and popular beliefs); hunting; domestication (taming, breeding, labour and companionship); entertainment and exhibitions (the menagerie, zoos, circuses and carnivals); science and specimens (research, education, collections and museums); philosophical beliefs; and artistic representations.
Medieval Hunting
Author: Richard Almond
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0752474626
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
Hunting was a major economic and leisure activity throughout the European Middle Ages, and while aristocratic practices have featured in studies of romantic and narrative literature, hunting in its wider sense, across the social spectrum with attendant male and female roles, has larged been ignored by modern medieval historians. Richard Almond's study brings vividly to life the universality and centrality of hunting to medieval societies, both as an economic necessity and as an expression of medieval humanity's amost atavistic sense of oneness with nature. Medieval Hunting dispels some of the myths and misunderstandings about hunting, including the persistent view that it was exclusively an aristocratic pursuit and a male one at that. Using a wide variety of contemporary textual and art historical evidence, Richard Almond demonstrates convincingly that hunting, including fishing and all manner of poaching, was enjoyed by all classes, and by women as well as men.
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0752474626
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
Hunting was a major economic and leisure activity throughout the European Middle Ages, and while aristocratic practices have featured in studies of romantic and narrative literature, hunting in its wider sense, across the social spectrum with attendant male and female roles, has larged been ignored by modern medieval historians. Richard Almond's study brings vividly to life the universality and centrality of hunting to medieval societies, both as an economic necessity and as an expression of medieval humanity's amost atavistic sense of oneness with nature. Medieval Hunting dispels some of the myths and misunderstandings about hunting, including the persistent view that it was exclusively an aristocratic pursuit and a male one at that. Using a wide variety of contemporary textual and art historical evidence, Richard Almond demonstrates convincingly that hunting, including fishing and all manner of poaching, was enjoyed by all classes, and by women as well as men.
Animals in Art and Thought
Author: Francis Klingender
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429557752
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1039
Book Description
Originally published in 1971, Animals in Art and Thought discusses the ways in which animals have been used by man in art and literature. The book looks at how they have been used to symbolise religious, social and political beliefs, as well as their pragmatic use by hunters, sportsmen, and farmers. The book discusses these various attitudes in a survey which ranges from prehistoric cave art to the later Middle Ages. The book is especially concerned with uncovering the latent, as well as the manifest meanings of animal art, and presents a detailed examination of the literary and archaeological monuments of the periods covered in the book. The book discusses the themes of Creation myths of the pagan and Christian religion, the contribution of the animal art of the ancient contribution of the animal art of the ancient Orient to the development of the Romanesque and gothic styles in Europe, the use of beast fables in social or political satire, and the heroic associations of animals in medieval chivalry.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429557752
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1039
Book Description
Originally published in 1971, Animals in Art and Thought discusses the ways in which animals have been used by man in art and literature. The book looks at how they have been used to symbolise religious, social and political beliefs, as well as their pragmatic use by hunters, sportsmen, and farmers. The book discusses these various attitudes in a survey which ranges from prehistoric cave art to the later Middle Ages. The book is especially concerned with uncovering the latent, as well as the manifest meanings of animal art, and presents a detailed examination of the literary and archaeological monuments of the periods covered in the book. The book discusses the themes of Creation myths of the pagan and Christian religion, the contribution of the animal art of the ancient contribution of the animal art of the ancient Orient to the development of the Romanesque and gothic styles in Europe, the use of beast fables in social or political satire, and the heroic associations of animals in medieval chivalry.
Animals and Hunters in the Late Middle Ages
Author: Hannele Klemettilä
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317551907
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
This book explores views of the natural world in the late Middle Ages, especially as expressed in Livre de chasse (Book of the Hunt), the most influential hunting book of the era. It shows that killing and maiming, suffering and the death of animals were not insignificant topics to late medieval men, but constituted a complex set of issues, and could provoke very contradictory thoughts and feelings that varied according social and cultural milieus and particular cases and circumstances.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317551907
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
This book explores views of the natural world in the late Middle Ages, especially as expressed in Livre de chasse (Book of the Hunt), the most influential hunting book of the era. It shows that killing and maiming, suffering and the death of animals were not insignificant topics to late medieval men, but constituted a complex set of issues, and could provoke very contradictory thoughts and feelings that varied according social and cultural milieus and particular cases and circumstances.
Animals in the Middle Ages
Author: Nona C. Flores
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135546770
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
These interdisciplinary essays focus on animals as symbols, ideas, or images in medieval art and literature.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135546770
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
These interdisciplinary essays focus on animals as symbols, ideas, or images in medieval art and literature.
Medieval Pets
Author: Kathleen Walker-Meikle
Publisher: Boydell Press
ISBN: 1843837587
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
An engaging and informative survey of medieval pet keeping which also examines their representation in art and literature.
Publisher: Boydell Press
ISBN: 1843837587
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
An engaging and informative survey of medieval pet keeping which also examines their representation in art and literature.
Holy and Noble Beasts
Author: David Salter
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 0859916243
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
It argues that through their depictions of animals, medieval writers were not only able to reflect upon their own humanity, but were also able to explore the meaning of more abstract values and ideas (such as civility, sanctity and nobility) that were central to the culture of the time."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 0859916243
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
It argues that through their depictions of animals, medieval writers were not only able to reflect upon their own humanity, but were also able to explore the meaning of more abstract values and ideas (such as civility, sanctity and nobility) that were central to the culture of the time."--BOOK JACKET.
In the Manner of the Franks
Author: Eric J. Goldberg
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812252357
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Eric J. Goldberg traces the long history of early medieval hunting from the late Roman Empire to the death of the last Carolingian king, Louis V, in a hunting accident in 987. He focuses chiefly on elite men and the changing role that hunting played in articulating kingship, status, and manhood in the post-Roman world. While hunting was central to elite lifestyles throughout these centuries, the Carolingians significantly altered this aristocratic activity in the later eighth and ninth centuries by making it a key symbol of Frankish kingship and political identity. This new connection emerged under Charlemagne, reached its high point under his son and heir Louis the Pious, and continued under Louis's immediate successors. Indeed, the emphasis on hunting as a badge of royal power and Frankishness would prove to be among the Carolingians' most significant and lasting legacies. Goldberg draws on written sources such as chronicles, law codes, charters, hagiography, and poetry as well as artistic and archaeological evidence to explore the changing nature of early medieval hunting and its connections to politics and society. Featuring more than sixty illustrations of hunting imagery found in mosaics, stone sculpture, metalwork, and illuminated manuscripts, In the Manner of the Franks portrays a vibrant and dynamic culture that encompassed red deer and wild boar hunting, falconry, ritualized behavior, female spectatorship, and complex forms of specialized knowledge that united kings and nobles in a shared political culture, thus locating the origins of courtly hunting in the early Middle Ages.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812252357
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Eric J. Goldberg traces the long history of early medieval hunting from the late Roman Empire to the death of the last Carolingian king, Louis V, in a hunting accident in 987. He focuses chiefly on elite men and the changing role that hunting played in articulating kingship, status, and manhood in the post-Roman world. While hunting was central to elite lifestyles throughout these centuries, the Carolingians significantly altered this aristocratic activity in the later eighth and ninth centuries by making it a key symbol of Frankish kingship and political identity. This new connection emerged under Charlemagne, reached its high point under his son and heir Louis the Pious, and continued under Louis's immediate successors. Indeed, the emphasis on hunting as a badge of royal power and Frankishness would prove to be among the Carolingians' most significant and lasting legacies. Goldberg draws on written sources such as chronicles, law codes, charters, hagiography, and poetry as well as artistic and archaeological evidence to explore the changing nature of early medieval hunting and its connections to politics and society. Featuring more than sixty illustrations of hunting imagery found in mosaics, stone sculpture, metalwork, and illuminated manuscripts, In the Manner of the Franks portrays a vibrant and dynamic culture that encompassed red deer and wild boar hunting, falconry, ritualized behavior, female spectatorship, and complex forms of specialized knowledge that united kings and nobles in a shared political culture, thus locating the origins of courtly hunting in the early Middle Ages.