To keep group functional past its 90-day Yahoo expiration... greetings also to the new members; any queries or introductions you wish to make? James McNelis ...
James McNelis has called for queries, so here is one, good people. Thomas of Centimpre' (Thomas Cantimpratensis), in his De natura rerum, cites "Adelinus."...
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Mar 9, 2002 12:53 am
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Hello, Has anybody got any records of the Eahgle Owl being kept by humans in medieval times? If so, for what purpose ? Cheers Andy Horton England...
Most authors I know write like Bartholomaeus Anglicus (18,54) about 'griffo' or' gryphes': "Gryphes est animal pennatum et quadrupes in hyperboreis partibus...
Walter Zechmeister
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Mar 13, 2002 8:41 pm
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Walter Zechmeister, 13.03.02, enquired about an account of the gryps or gryphus, a creature part lion and part eagle, in which it would be said to have...
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Mar 17, 2002 12:56 pm
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All of the referiances I have seen to keeping owls in medieval time point at them being mainly used for different hunting and trapping senarios. They are...
Message text written by INTERNET:Medbeast-L@yahoogroups.com ... Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 18:23:45 -0000 From: "janasimmons" <janasimmons@...> Subject: Re:...
Hello... I'm new to the group, so please excuse any re-posting. I'm a PhD student in Cardiff, doing some work on Chaucer's use of animals in the Canterbury...
David: Could you please read my post above (as soon as it's moderated) and let me know if you can help? I've posted a question you might be particularly...
Mr. Macy, there may not always be much vertical hierarchy in classical and medieval natural history. Yes, the Lion and the Eagle may come first, but the rest...
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Jul 15, 2002 6:20 am
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Greetings to the List: I need some information about the domestication and husbandry of rabbits throughout the Middle Ages. My resources are limited to a very...
Have a look at the following: Specific: Abraham, C. K. 1963. Myth and symbol: the rabbit in medieval France. Studies in Philology 60/4, October: 589-597. ...
Aleks
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Aug 2, 2002 2:38 am
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Dear Collette You can start from the following articles. all the best Ilya Dines isd@... Bailey, M. "The Rabbit and the Medieval East Anglian...
Gerbert
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Aug 2, 2002 2:39 am
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Thank you - Now I have a starting place!! Collette...
Dear members of Medbeast-L, working on Jean de Meun's Roman de la Rose, I read a passage about an animal called "lins" which is said to be able to look...
And welcome to new members who have joined the list in recent weeks. A quiet list is, perhaps, a happy list, but nonetheless if queries are out there, ...
Dear all, I don't know if you'll be able to help me with this one. I'm an archaeologist doing research into antler and bone artefacts in Viking Age Britain. ...
At this moment I am horribly busy, but I think I can help you with your interest. Henry L. P. Beckwith [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
Forgive me, but there was a query, I believe from one of our number dealing with stag's horns. The thing has disappeared from my computer. Can you help me? I...
FROM: coh1864nehgs@... DATE: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 16:36:58 EST SUBJECT: Re: [Medbeast-L] Happy New Year Forgive me, but there was a query, I believe from one...
Dear all, Sorry to repeat, but I think that someone said that they lost my original query. I was asking about the symbolic/'magical' etc importance of deer...
Steve, Would this one help? Nicholson, Lewis E. "Beowulf and the Pagan Cult of the Stag." Studi Medievali 3rd ser., 27 (1986): 637-69. BJM...
Brian McFadden
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Jan 15, 2003 1:23 pm
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Dear Steve, I'm not sure this will give you much of what you're looking for, but there are two riddles in Old English that refer to ink-containers made out of ...
Neville J
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Jan 18, 2003 1:09 am
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James McNelis English, Wilmington College 251 Ludovic St Wilmington OH 45177 members.aol.com/mcnelis [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
A colleague of mine was asked this question by a student, and we were both amazed to find out that we couldn't answer it. I don't buy the suggestion that...
Neville J
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Feb 28, 2003 1:08 pm
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Dear Jennifer, Folk memories of dinosaurs? There were no humans or hominids, nor even primates around when the last of the dinosaurs vanished. And -- just in...
No, the origin of dragons is not known and I don't see how it ever can be. The 'folk memory" theory is just silly. And people who think that dinosaurs have...
Norman Hinton
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Mar 1, 2003 3:46 pm
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Those of us who teach in the rural midwest (and, I expect, elsewhere) are never far removed from the theory that those annoying fossils in the ground may be...
