Animal Skins and the Reading Self in Medieval Latin and French Bestiaries / / Sarah Kay

• Autore: Kay Sarah
• Pubblicazione: Chicago : , : University of Chicago Press, , [2017]; ©2017
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (244 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 809/.93362
• Soggetto topico: Bestiaries - History and criticism; Manuscripts, Medieval; Parchment; Animals in literature; Animals, Mythical, in literature; Animals in art; Animals, Mythical, in art; Human-animal relationships; Books and reading - History - To 1500; Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
• Soggetto non controllato: Didier Anzieu; Giorgio Agamben; bestiaries; bestiary; human-animal relations; manuscripts; parchment; physiologus; skin
• Classificazione: IB 5000
• Note generali: Previously issued in print: 2017.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Conventions Used in This Book -- Introduction: Skin, Suture, and Caesura -- 1. Book, Word, Page -- 2. Garments of Skin -- 3. Orifices and the Library -- 4. Cutting the Skin: Sacrifice, Sovereignty, and the Space of Exception -- 5. The Riddle of Recognition -- 6. Skin, the Inner Senses, and the Soul as "Inner Life" -- Conclusion. Reading Bestiaries -- Appendix. Chronology of Latin and French Bestiary Versions -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Animal Skins and the Reading Self in Medieval Latin and French Bestiaries
• ISBN: 0-226-43687-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910162713903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II