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Sarah Kay - Animal Skins and the Reading Self in Medieval Latin and French Bestiaries - 9780226436739 - V9780226436739
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Animal Skins and the Reading Self in Medieval Latin and French Bestiaries

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Description for Animal Skins and the Reading Self in Medieval Latin and French Bestiaries Hardcover. Num Pages: 232 pages, 28 color plates, 28 halftones. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Just like we do today, people in medieval times struggled with the concept of human exceptionalism and the significance of other creatures. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the medieval bestiary. Sarah Kay's exploration of French and Latin bestiaries offers fresh insight into how this prominent genre challenged the boundary between its human readers and other animals. Bestiaries present accounts of animals whose fantastic behaviors should be imitated or avoided, depending on the given trait. In a highly original argument, Kay suggests that the association of beasts with books is here both literal and material, as nearly all surviving ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226436739
SKU
V9780226436739
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15

About Sarah Kay
Sarah Kay is professor of French at New York University. Her many books include Parrots and Nightingales: Troubadour Quotations and the Development of European Poetry and The Place of Thought: The Complexity of One in Late Medieval French Didactic Poetry.

Reviews for Animal Skins and the Reading Self in Medieval Latin and French Bestiaries
This beautifully illustrated book brilliantly shows how medieval Latin and French bestiaries thoroughly impacted a wide range of readers both via the content of the texts themselves and via their transmission as parchment books. The bestiaries' clever interplay between their many textual references to skin, and the fact that their pages are themselves instances of skin, helped readers shape their ... Read more

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