Dear all, A quick query for you. I'm doing some work on the use of bone and antler in (early) medieval artefacts. I'm particularly interested in perceptions...
And other complementary sources : Bibliographie : Sources: Pacien de Barcelone (saint), intro., éd., comm., index, par Carmelo Granado, trad., par Chantal...
Dear Steve, Some random thoughts... Deer, specifically stags, were used to represent Christ from Patristic commentaries through to the Renaissance although the...
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Dear steve, I made some researches on this subject, to explaine a curious iconography in a book of hour. Here is the bibliography i found on the subject. &...
Hello, here is a list of holy peoples whom iconography incluse deer : Cerf seul : Abonde de Côme Conrad de Plaisance Donatien Lambert (rattaché à Hubert) ...
Hello, I found something interesant readings again DIEKSTRA (F. N. M.),”The Physiologus, the bestiary and medieval animal lore”, Neophilologus, n°69,...
Greetings to the list! ... I was just reading a fictional book, but it talks about a stag that's the Hungarian national symbol - the csoda szarvas, the...
Hello, New books on bestiaries and animal lore are avaliable : Hugues de Fouilloy, De avibus, Traité des oiseaux (extraits), fac-similé du manuscrit 177 de...
CALL FOR PAPERS ... "Breaking and Shaping Beastly Bodies: Animals as Material Culture in the Middle Ages" A one-day conference on Saturday 19th March 2005 at...
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Jul 20, 2004 4:10 pm
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I tried to send this message a few days ago and it never arrived in my box. I am resending. Apologies if this has already appeared. I have been reading Joyce...
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Lorraine, there is a chapter on wolves in _Master of Game_, as there is in the source _Livre de chasse_, and wolves are discussed in Cummins' _The Hound and...
Dear Lorraine, I am not on the better place to answer you since I work on birds, but I met wolves in some of my readings, and if I had an adiviseto give you,...
Dear Lorraine, ... Plenty - from lots of different sources across Europe. My forthcoming book which revises my Ph.D thesis explores responses to wolves and...
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Thanks to James, Remy and Aleks for their help. If others have anything to add, I welcome the information. This is such a good list! I have the hunting...
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Lorraine, the elephant in London circa late 11th c. would be one exotic display item. If his experience is any guide, the northern medievals weren't too good...
There were ostriches in the menagery of Guillaume le Conquerant, Duc of Normandie (See the chronicle of Raoul Tortaire), but there are very few sources...
... Certainly feral - or at least wild - deer and wild boar were enclosed in 12th century England. Re. exotic: I would say that the collection at Woodstock...
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Jul 22, 2004 7:13 am
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... Do you mean the one presented by Louis IX in the mid-13th century? Aleks...
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Jul 22, 2004 7:16 am
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Greetings, I have been studying medieval agronomy for a couple of years now - hoping to create a (mostly) self-sustaining estate here in northwest Georgia on...
Sorry, confused the date of the elephant and the tower. Not too good, esp. since I saw the psalter painting of the elephant here at Cambridge just the other...
Dear all, I have a somewhat strange query, but I'd be grateful for any suggestions! Does anyone know what specific depictions - public or private - of 'the ...
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Greetings! ... I've seen some copies of some of the illuminations in the Book of Hours of Rene of Anjou - it's a good place to check. Some of the more ...
Hello! I am Lucia Teszler I am PhD student in philosophical Hermeneutic at University of Turin. I want to begin a research about the seven deadly sins and I ...
The ass or donkey usually represents sloth. As Isidore of Seville says in his Etymologies (Book 12, 1:38): It resists commands for no reason, and is a slow...
Dear Lucy, Concerning birds, those which were considered as the most sinful are certainly the Hoopoe, the Kite and the Owl (bubo). But be careful, the barn owl...
