LEADER 04415nam 2200733 a 450 001 9910788670503321 005 20211005025222.0 010 $a1-283-89871-3 010 $a0-8122-0630-4 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812206302 035 $a(CKB)3240000000065374 035 $a(EBL)3441970 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000786927 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11443043 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000786927 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10813239 035 $a(PQKB)11082726 035 $a(OCoLC)822655787 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse19117 035 $a(DE-B1597)449643 035 $a(OCoLC)979628136 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812206302 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3441970 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10642722 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL421121 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441970 035 $a(EXLCZ)993240000000065374 100 $a20120511d2013 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAnimal encounters$b[electronic resource] $econtacts and concepts in medieval Britain /$fSusan Crane 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2013 215 $a1 online resource (280 p.) 225 0 $aThe Middle Ages Series 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-8122-4458-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [237]-264) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tNote on Citations --$tIntroduction --$tChapter 1. Cohabitation --$tChapter 2. Wolf, Man, and Wolf- Man --$tChapter 3. A Bestiary's Taxonomy of Creatures --$tChapter 4. The Noble Hunt as a Ritual Practice --$tChapter 5. Falcon and Princess --$tChapter 6. Knight and Horse --$tConclusion --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aTraces of the living animal run across the entire corpus of medieval writing and reveal how pervasively animals mattered in medieval thought and practice. In fascinating scenes of cross-species encounters, a raven offers St. Cuthbert a lump of lard that waterproofs his visitors' boots for a whole year, a scholar finds inspiration for his studies in his cat's perfect focus on killing mice, and a dispossessed knight wins back his heritage only to give it up again in order to save the life of his warhorse. Readers have often taken such encounters to be merely figurative or fanciful, but Susan Crane discovers that these scenes of interaction are firmly grounded in the intimate cohabitation with animals that characterized every medieval milieu from palace to village. The animal encounters of medieval literature reveal their full meaning only when we recover the living animal's place within the written animal. The grip of a certain humanism was strong in medieval Britain, as it is today: the humanism that conceives animals in diametrical opposition to humankind. Yet medieval writing was far from univocal in this regard. Latin and vernacular works abound in other ways of thinking about animals that invite the saint, the scholar, and the knight to explore how bodies and minds interpenetrate across species lines. Crane brings these other ways of thinking to light in her readings of the beast fable, the hunting treatise, the saint's life, the bestiary, and other genres. Her substantial contribution to the field of animal studies investigates how animals and people interact in culture making, how conceiving the animal is integral to conceiving the human, and how cross-species encounters transform both their animal and their human participants. 410 0$aMiddle Ages series. 606 $aEnglish literature$yMiddle English, 1100-1500$xHistory and criticism 606 $aHuman-animal relationships in literature 606 $aAnthropomorphism in literature 610 $aCultural Studies. 610 $aHistory. 610 $aLiterature. 610 $aMedieval and Renaissance Studies. 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aHuman-animal relationships in literature. 615 0$aAnthropomorphism in literature. 676 $a820.9/3620902 686 $aHH 4061$qSEPA$2rvk 700 $aCrane$b Susan$01516223 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910788670503321 996 $aAnimal encounters$93752551 997 $aUNINA