Our Dogs, Our Selves: Dogs in Medieval and Early Modern Art, Literature, and Society: 6 (Art and Material Culture in Medieval and Renaissance Europe, 6) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004269169 ISBN 13: 9789004269163

Publisher: Brill, 2016

Synopsis

The ubiquity of references to dogs in medieval and early modern texts and images must at some level reflect their actual presence in those worlds, yet scholarly consideration of this material is rare and scattered across diverse sources. This volume addresses that gap, bringing together fifteen essays that examine the appearance, meaning, and significance of dogs in painting, sculpture, manuscripts, literature, and legal records of the period, reaching beyond Europe to include cultural material from medieval Japan and Islam. While primarily art historical in focus, the authors approach the subject from a range of disciplines and with varying methodology that ultimately reveals as much about dogs as about the societies in which they lived.
Contributors are Kathleen Ashley, Jane Carroll, Emily Cockayne, John Block Friedman, Karen M. Gerhart, Laura D. Gelfand, Craig A. Gibson, Walter S. Gibson, Nathan Hofer, Jane C. Long, Judith W. Mann, Sophie Oosterwijk, Elizabeth Carson Pastan, Donna L. Sadler, Alexa Sand, and Janet Snyder.

About this title

About the Author

Laura D. Gelfand, Ph.D. (1994), Case Western Reserve University, is Professor of Art History at Utah State University. She has published widely on Northern Renaissance art and architecture and co-edits the series Art and Material Culture in Medieval and Renaissance Europe (Brill).

Edition details

• Publisher: Brill
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004269169
• ISBN 13: 9789004269163
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 446
• Editor: Gelfand Laura D.