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Bestiaries are among the most interesting and varied books of the Middle Ages. Collections of illustrations depicting real and mythical animals and plants accompanied a text which can be traced back to the earliest centuries of the Christian era. Dr. Baxter, employing a completely fresh and comprehensive approach, has undertaken extensive new research into a large corpus of Bestiaries, applying modern narrative theory to their texts and images to reveal the messages encoded in themmessages which were systematically altered as Bestiaries were expanded and restructured. By applying the results of this analysis to medieval library records, he has been able to identify important centres of Bestiary use, and to present a radically different picture of what Bestiaries were to their medieval users.

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Bestiaries And Their Users In The Middle Ages

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A glimpse at bestiaries. The author applies modern narrative theory to their texts and images to reveal the messages encoded in them. This book should be of interest to students of art history, mediaeval history, or mediaeval studies and to anyone fascinated by the mysteries of mediaeval art.

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  • PublisherSutton Publishing Ltd
  • Publication date1998
  • ISBN 10 0750918535
  • ISBN 13 9780750918534
  • BindingHardcover
  • LanguageEnglish
  • Edition number1
  • Number of pages256

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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Plus. First Edition. 1998. xiv, 242pp. B&W and colour illustrations. "Challenging the prevailing view that they are keys to the iconography of contemporary sculpture or early attempts at zoology, art historian Baxter takes a completely fresh approach to the collections of illustrations depicting and texts describing real and mythical animals and plants." Sunning to spine of jacket. Both book and unclipped dust jacket are otherwise in excellent condition. All contents are tight and clean. There are no inscriptions. Seller Inventory # Medieval003

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1st edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Provenance: Bookplate of W N Paul. Physical description; xiv, 242 pp., illustrations (some color), maps, 25 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-239) and index. Contents; Ch. 1. The Story of a Discourse -- Ch. 2. Narrative in the Physiologus -- Ch. 3. The Latin Bestiary in England -- Ch. 4. Patterns of Consumption -- Ch. 5. Consumption and Narration -- Ch. 6. A Return to the Discourse -- App. 1. Adam's gifts to St. Augustine's, Canterbury -- App. 2. Bestiary entries in medieval book lists -- App. 3. Survival rates of Bestiaries -- App. 4. The timescale of Bestiary production. Subjects; Physiologus. Medieval. Bestiaries History and criticism. Didactic literature, Latin (Medieval and modern) History and criticism. Animals, Mythical, in literature. Monastic libraries England History To 1500. Transmission of texts. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 384255

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1st edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Provenance: Bookplate of W N Paul. Physical description; xiv, 242 pp., illustrations (some color), maps, 25 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-239) and index. Contents; Ch. 1. The Story of a Discourse -- Ch. 2. Narrative in the Physiologus -- Ch. 3. The Latin Bestiary in England -- Ch. 4. Patterns of Consumption -- Ch. 5. Consumption and Narration -- Ch. 6. A Return to the Discourse -- App. 1. Adam's gifts to St. Augustine's, Canterbury -- App. 2. Bestiary entries in medieval book lists -- App. 3. Survival rates of Bestiaries -- App. 4. The timescale of Bestiary production. Subjects; Physiologus. Medieval. Bestiaries History and criticism. Didactic literature, Latin (Medieval and modern) History and criticism. Animals, Mythical, in literature. Monastic libraries England History To 1500. Transmission of texts. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 384255

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