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Understanding Animals 1150-1350

Understanding Animals 1150-1350

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Medieval & Renaissance HistoryGeneral World HistoryZoology

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ISBN10: 1403938180
ISBN13: 9781403938183
Publisher: Palgrave
Published: Dec 27 2013
Pages: 256
Language: English
Animals are 'good to think with' (Levi-Strauss), which is why they are the subject of this book investigating changing attitudes towards nature in the thirteenth century. Animals were always a significant element in religious thought and art in the Middle Ages. But in the thirteenth century increased access to ancient learning combined with direct observation and more general social, cultural and intellectual changes transformed traditional ways of thinking about them. This book explores this transformation and shows how far the new scholarly advances were reconciled with existing interpretations of animals and of their symbolic or allegorical meanings.

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