Reading Nature in the Early Middle Ages
This book is a new cultural and intellectual history of the natural world in the early medieval Latin West. It examines the complex relationships between language, texts, and the physical world they describe, focusing on the manuscripts of the Physiologus—the foundation of the medieval bestiary. The...
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| author | Dorofeeva, Anna |
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| description | This book is a new cultural and intellectual history of the natural world in the early medieval Latin West. It examines the complex relationships between language, texts, and the physical world they describe, focusing on the manuscripts of the Physiologus—the foundation of the medieval bestiary. The Physiologus helped to shape the post-Roman worldview about the role and place of human beings in Creation. This process drew on classical ideas, but in its emphasis on allegory, etymology, and a plurality of readings, it was original and distinctive. This study demonstrates precisely how the early medieval re-contextualization of existing knowledge, together with a substantial amount of new writing, set the course of ideas about faith and nature for centuries to come. In doing so, it establishes the importance of multi-text miscellanies for early medieval written culture. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1221062025-03-21T04:04:29Z Reading Nature in the Early Middle Ages Dorofeeva, Anna Bestiary; medieval nature; medieval animals; beasts This book is a new cultural and intellectual history of the natural world in the early medieval Latin West. It examines the complex relationships between language, texts, and the physical world they describe, focusing on the manuscripts of the Physiologus—the foundation of the medieval bestiary. The Physiologus helped to shape the post-Roman worldview about the role and place of human beings in Creation. This process drew on classical ideas, but in its emphasis on allegory, etymology, and a plurality of readings, it was original and distinctive. This study demonstrates precisely how the early medieval re-contextualization of existing knowledge, together with a substantial amount of new writing, set the course of ideas about faith and nature for centuries to come. In doing so, it establishes the importance of multi-text miscellanies for early medieval written culture. 2023-11-17T09:28:06Z 2023-11-17T09:28:06Z 2023-11-13T12:48:06Z 2023 book OCN: 1409079602 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/85029 9781802700022 9781802701661 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/122106 eng Premodern Ecosystems open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/85029/1/9781802701654.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/85029/17/9781802701654.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/85029/17/9781802701654.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/85029/17/9781802701654.pdf Arc Humanities Press 10.17302/PE-9781802701654 10.17302/PE-9781802701654 f13fc637-eaa8-4720-b1fa-dafaccb9c6d2 9781802700022 9781802701661 266 open access |
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