LEADER 04223nam 22008055 450 001 9910162713903321 005 20240605184716.0 010 $a0-226-43687-X 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226436876 035 $a(CKB)3710000001032959 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4789523 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001741317 035 $a(DE-B1597)522644 035 $a(OCoLC)970659200 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226436876 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001032959 100 $a20191022d2017 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aAnimal Skins and the Reading Self in Medieval Latin and French Bestiaries /$fSarah Kay 210 1$aChicago :$cUniversity of Chicago Press,$d[2017] 210 4$dİ2017 215 $a1 online resource (244 pages) $cillustrations 300 $aPreviously issued in print: 2017. 311 $a9780226436876 311 $a0-226-43673-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tIllustrations --$tConventions Used in This Book --$tIntroduction: Skin, Suture, and Caesura --$t1. Book, Word, Page --$t2. Garments of Skin --$t3. Orifices and the Library --$t4. Cutting the Skin: Sacrifice, Sovereignty, and the Space of Exception --$t5. The Riddle of Recognition --$t6. Skin, the Inner Senses, and the Soul as "Inner Life" --$tConclusion. Reading Bestiaries --$tAppendix. Chronology of Latin and French Bestiary Versions --$tAcknowledgments --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aJust 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 bestiaries are copied on parchment made of animal skin, which also resembles human skin. Using a rich array of examples, she shows how the content and materiality of bestiaries are linked due to the continual references in the texts to the skins of other animals, as well as the ways in which the pages themselves repeatedly-and at times, it would seem, deliberately-intervene in the reading process. A vital contribution to animal studies and medieval manuscript studies, this book sheds new light on the European bestiary and its profound power to shape readers' own identities. 606 $aBestiaries$xHistory and criticism 606 $aManuscripts, Medieval 606 $aParchment 606 $aAnimals in literature 606 $aAnimals, Mythical, in literature 606 $aAnimals in art 606 $aAnimals, Mythical, in art 606 $aHuman-animal relationships 606 $aBooks and reading$xHistory$yTo 1500 606 $aIllumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval 610 $aDidier Anzieu. 610 $aGiorgio Agamben. 610 $abestiaries. 610 $abestiary. 610 $ahuman-animal relations. 610 $amanuscripts. 610 $aparchment. 610 $aphysiologus. 610 $askin. 615 0$aBestiaries$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aManuscripts, Medieval. 615 0$aParchment. 615 0$aAnimals in literature. 615 0$aAnimals, Mythical, in literature. 615 0$aAnimals in art. 615 0$aAnimals, Mythical, in art. 615 0$aHuman-animal relationships. 615 0$aBooks and reading$xHistory 615 0$aIllumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval. 676 $a809/.93362 686 $aIB 5000$2rvk 700 $aKay$b Sarah$0168347 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910162713903321 996 $aAnimal Skins and the Reading Self in Medieval Latin and French Bestiaries$92088668 997 $aUNINA