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...
Aleks
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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...
Lorraine K. Stock
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Jul 21, 2004 8:42 am
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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...
Aleks
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Jul 21, 2004 11:15 am
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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...
Lorraine K. Stock
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Jul 21, 2004 4:01 pm
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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...
Aleks
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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...
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 ...
Aleks
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Aug 17, 2004 10:37 pm
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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...
Dear all, The registration details for 'Breaking and Shaping Beastly Bodies: Animals as Material Culture in the Middle Ages' are now online, and can be found...
Aleks
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Feb 14, 2005 1:03 am
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Dear listmembers, we have been quiet of late, doubtless due in part to the end of term on most American academic calendars, and many others besides. I hope the...
Thank you Just a little information which can be of interrest : the 16th international congress of the renardian Society will take place in Münster this...
Just today I thinked at you when in train I became to read the Gherardo Ortalli's book on Woolf and peoples in Middle Ages (Lupi , gente e culture).. I want...
Dear Lucia, The Wolf of Gubbio as far as I understand is a fourteenth century elaboration of an earlier story of St. Francis and wolves recorded in the Scripta...
Aleks
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Jun 24, 2005 3:59 pm
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Wolves are Alek's domain, but it is sure that the conversion of wild beast is a topos of angiographic literacy, the only specificity here is the identity of...
Here is the Brepol's presentation of the last important publication on bestiaries that will be published durign the summer Yours Rémy ... Textes, Etudes,...
Dear all, I would like to bring to your attention the following two jobs at the University of Bochum in the field of (English) medieval natural history: Job...
Luuk Houwen
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Jul 1, 2005 1:25 pm
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Dear Group: The following is forwarded from Susan Crane, and inquiries should be addressed to her. I am soliciting proposals for papers on any aspect of...
Dear all, There are still spaces for papers in the following session: "New Perspectives on Medieval Hunting" (special session) May 4th-7th, 2006, International...
