Beschrijving
Original publisher’s sewn paperback, pictorial frontcover, large 8vo: xvi, 250pp., 13 contributions, 41 illustrations, footnotes & references, abbreviations, list of plates, list contributors, index, table of contents. CONTENTS: 1. Literary Genre and Animal Symbolism. Jan M. Ziolkowski. 2. Losing the monster and Recoverring the Non-Human in Fable[d] Subjectivity. Lesley Kordecki. 3. Man-Eating Monsters and Ants as Big as Dogs. Susan M. Kim. 4. Animated Ships in Old English and Old Norse Poetry. Karin Olsen. 5. A Greyhound Should have ‘ Eres in the Manere of a Serpent ‘. James I. McNeis, III. 6. Flattery and the Mermaid in Chausser’s ‘ Nun’s Priest’s Tale ‘. L.A.J.R. Houwen. 7. ‘ Nature Red in Tooth and Claw ‘. Priscilla Bawcutt. 8. The Major Professional Skills of the Dove in ‘ The Buke of the Howlat’. Regina Scheibe. 9. Do Centaurs Have Souls? Ludo Jongen. 10. Pulling the Chestnuts out of the Fire. Elizabeth Dawes. 11. Marginal Bestiaries. Debra Hassig. 12.De ignotis quarumdam bestiarum naturalis. Margriet Hoogvliet. 13. A Sculptural Fragment from Cluny III and the Three-Headed Bird Iconography. Masuyo Tokita Darling. Very fine copy – as new. Volume 20: Mediaevalia Groningana.