Animal Languages in the Middle Ages Representations of Interspecies Communication /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Langdon, Alison (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Σειρά: The New Middle Ages
• Θέματα: Literature, Medieval.; Comparative literature.; Europe-History-476-1492.; Medieval Literature.; Comparative Literature.; History of Medieval Europe.

The essays in this interdisciplinary volume explore language, broadly construed, as part of the continued interrogation of the boundaries of human and nonhuman animals in the Middle Ages. Uniting a diverse set of emerging and established scholars, Animal Languages questions the assumed medieval dis...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1 Introduction
• Part I Communicating Through Animals
• 2 Becoming-Birds: The Destabilizing Use of Gendered Animal Imagery in Ancrene Wisse
• 3 As faucon comen out of muwe": Female Agency and the Language of Falconry
• 4 Saints and Holy Beasts: Pious Animals in Early-Medieval Insular Saints' Vitae
• 5 The Speech of Strangers: The Tale of the Andalusi Phoenix
• Part II Recovering Animal Languages
• 6 Bark Like a Man: Performance, Identity, and Boundary in Old English Animal Voice Catalogues
• 7 In Briddes Wise: Chaucer's Avian Poetics
• 8 Understanding Hawk-Latin: Animal Language and Universal Rhetoric
• 9 "Dites le mei, si ferez bien": Fallen Language and Animal Communication in Marie de France's Bisclavret
• Part III Embodied Language and Interspecies Dependence
• 10 On Equine Language: Jordanus Rufus and Thirteenth-Century Communicative Horsemanship
• 11 No Hoof, No Horse: Hoof Care, Veterinary Medicine and Cross-Species Communication in Late Medieval England
• 12 Medieval Dog Whisperers: The Poetics of Rehabilitation
• 13 Embodied Emotion as Animal Language in Le Chevalier au Lion.