Introducing Medieval Animal Names

Language: English

Published by University of Wales Press, GB, 2025

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What did medieval people call the animals they lived and worked with? Why did they give them the names they did? This book sets out to answer these questions. Drawing evidence from literary, documentary and material sources, it surveys the surviving evidence of pet-naming from the period, as well as examining the labels given to livestock and working animals, and the folk-names given to wild birds and beasts. Alongside building up a corpus of names, the conventions that directed animal naming in the Middle Ages are considered, as well as how proper nouns behaved when given to non-human organisms. Through its inquiry, the book lays bare the period's larger attitudes towards animals, their functions and identities, and at the same time sheds light on how the Middle Ages conceived the natural world as a whole and its relationship with human beings and their culture.

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Title
Introducing Medieval Animal Names
Author
Ben Parsons
Publisher
University of Wales Press, GB
Publication year
2025
Condition
New
Binding
Paperback
Language
English
ISBN 10
1837722617
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9781837722617

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