Bestiaries and Their Users in the Middle Ages

by Ron Baxter

Challenging the prevailing view that they are keys to the iconography of contemporary sculpture or early attempts at zoology, art historian Baxter takes a completely fresh approach to the collections of illustrations depicting and texts describing real and mythical animals and plants. He applies modern narrative theory to the texts and images to find messages encoded in them, and argues that those messages were systematically altered as the Bestiaries were expanded and restructured. Distributed in the US by Books International. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Genres: Medieval, Nonfiction, Art, History, Art History

242 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1, 1998

Reviews

[Skrivena stranica]

Quite good. I often got lost, but here informations are great in number and in their density so I for that reason had great difficulty in understanding everything. It's especially hard since I never saw any real bestiary in person, and there is not really a possibility to read one online in their original condition (if there is, please let me know where), and he uses all those hard classification names that make my head spin. But when you look into it more, this is really good book.

[Astrid]

thank you for aiding my Marxist-tinged Siren paper