"Previously published as vol. 2076 in the Garland reference library of the humanities"--Title page verso.
"List of bestiary and physiologus manuscripts": pages 211-213.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The lion, bloodline, and kingship / Margaret Haist -- Misericord owls and medieval anti-semitism / Mariko Miyazaki -- Bestiary lessons on pride and lust / Carmen Brown -- Sex in the bestiaries / Debra Hassig -- The phoenix and the resurrection / Valerie Jones -- Did imaginary animals exist? / Pamela Gravestock -- Classical ideology in the medieval bestiary / J. Holli Wheatcroft -- Taboos and the holy in Bodley 764 / Alison Syme -- Silence's beasts / Michelle Bolduc.
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"Explores the development and uses of the medieval bestiary from the perspective of literature and art history"--Back cover.
Animals in art.
Animals in literature.
Animals, Mythical, in art.
Animals, Mythical, in literature.
Bestiaries-- History and criticism.
Didactic literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)-- History and criticism.