Medieval Beasts

Title

en_US Medieval Beasts

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)

en_US Ann Payne

Creator

en_US Payne, Ann See all items with this value

Date

2016-01-25T15:53:28Z

en_US 1992-07

en_US 1990

Date Available

2016-01-25T15:53:28Z

Date Issued

en_US 1990

Abstract

en_US This is a pretty book offering Payne's sense of typical patterns of presentation in bestiaries, with good supporting photographs and illustrations. Aesop is touched on in a number of ways. In the section on Antelope (24-5) there is no reference to Aesop but plenty to drinking and having horns locked in trees. Beaver (32) presents the Aesopic nature-lore story of severed testes. Ape (36-7) mentions Aesop and conflates Babrius' and Avianus' stories about the monkey mother with an illustration; see also the back cover of the dust jacket. Fox (45) tells the story (from the Reynard cycle?) of playing dead and attracting birds and then devouring them. Dog (50-1) grabs at the meat reflected in the water. Not from Aesop but too good to pass up is this comment on Parrot (65): an occasional blow with an iron bar will improve its understanding!

Identifier

en_US 712302050

en_US 1439 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/77012

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US British Library

en_US London

Subject

en_US ND3339.P38 1990 See all items with this value

en_US Tangential book See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole