Introducing The Medieval Ass

Author : Kathryn L. Smithies
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786836236

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Introducing the Medieval Ass by Kathryn L. Smithies Pdf

Introducing the Medieval Ass presents a lucid, accessible, and comprehensive picture of the ass’s enormous socio-economic and cultural significance in the Middle Ages and beyond. In the Middle Ages, the ass became synonymous with human idiocy, a comic figure representing foolish peasants, students too dull to learn, and their asinine teachers. This trope of foolishness was so prevalent that by the eighteenth century the word ‘ass’ had been replaced by ‘donkey’. Economically, the medieval ass was a vital, utilitarian beast of burden, rather like today’s ubiquitous white van; culturally, however, the medieval ass enjoyed a rich, paradoxical reputation. Its hard work was praised, but its obstinacy condemned. It exemplified the good Christian, humbly bearing Christ to Jerusalem, but also represented Sloth, a mortal sin. Its potent sexual reputation – one literary ass had sex with a woman – was simultaneously linked to sterility and, to this day, ‘ass’ and ‘arse’ remain culturally-connected homophones.

Author : Gregory Forth
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780228000044

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A Dog Pissing at the Edge of a Path by Gregory Forth Pdf

The Nage people of the eastern Indonesian island of Flores refer to someone who begins something but is regularly distracted by other matters as "a dog pissing at the edge of a path." In this first comprehensive study of animal metaphors in a non-Western society, Gregory Forth focuses on how the Nage understand metaphor and use their knowledge of animals to shape specific expressions. Based on extensive field research, A Dog Pissing at the Edge of a Path explores the meaning and use of over 560 animal metaphors employed by the Nage. Investigating how closely their indigenous concept of pata péle corresponds to the Greek-derived English concept of metaphor, Forth demonstrates that the Nage people understand these figures of speech in the same way as Westerners – namely as conventional ways of speaking about people and objects, not expressions of an essential identity between their animal vehicles and human referents. Theoretically engaging with anthropology's recent ontological turn, the book considers whether metaphors reveal significant differences in conceptions of human-animal relations, the human-animal contrast, and human understanding of other humans in different parts of the world. An incredible catalogue of animal-based linguistic art and Nage verbal conventions, A Dog Pissing at the Edge of a Path illuminates essential features of metaphorical thought everywhere.

Author : Emily Selove
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781009084437

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The Donkey King by Emily Selove Pdf

The 13th-century Arabic grimoire, al-Sakkākī's Kitāb al-Shāmil (Book of the Complete), provides numerous methods of contacting jinn. The first such jinn described, Abū Isrā'īl Būzayn ibn Sulaymān, arrives with a donkey. In the course of offering an explanation for his ritual, this Element reveals the double-sided nature of asinine symbology, and explains why this animal has served as the companion of both demons and prophets. Focusing on two nodes of donkey symbology—the phallus and the bray-it reveals a coincidentia oppositorum in a deceptively humble and comic animal form. Thus, the donkey, bearer of a demonic voice, and of a phallus symbolic of base materiality, also represents transcendence of the material and protection from the demonic. In addition to Arabic literature and occult rituals, the Element refers to evidence from the ancient Near East, Egypt, and Greece, as well as to medieval Jewish and Christian texts.

Author : E. P. Evans
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-28
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:8596547011033

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The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals by E. P. Evans Pdf

The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals is a book by E.P. Evans. It covers the history and procedures of killing animals that took the life of human beings, in most cases through no fault of the animals themselves.

Author : Jan M. Ziolkowski
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781512809350

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Talking Animals by Jan M. Ziolkowski Pdf

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

Author : Robert McKay,Susan McHugh
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783031248726

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Animal Satire by Robert McKay,Susan McHugh Pdf

Animal Satire presents a cultural history of animal satire, a critically neglected but persistent presence in the history of cultural production, in which animals expose human folly while the strategies of satire expose the folly of human-animal relations. Highlighting the teeming animal presences across the history of satirical expression from Aristophanes to Twitter, with chapters on key works of literature, drama, film, and a plethora of satirical media, Animal Satire reveals the rich rhetorical significance of animality in powering the politics of satire from ancient and medieval through modern and contemporary times. More pressingly, the book makes the case for the significance of satire for understanding the real-world implications of rhetoric about animals in ongoing struggles for justice. By gathering both critical and creative examples from representative media forms, historical periods, and continents, this volume aims to enrich scholarship on the history of satire as well as empower creative practitioners with ideas about its practical applications today.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UCSC:32106005890592

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Physiologus by Anonim Pdf

One of the most popular and widely read books of the Middle Ages, "Physiologus "contains allegories of beasts, stones, and trees both real and imaginary, infused by their anonymous author with the spirit of Christian moral and mystical teaching.a Accompanied by an introduction that explains the origins, history, and literary value of this curious text, this volume also reproduces twenty woodcuts from the 1587 version. Originally composed in the fourth century in Greek, and translated into dozens of versions through the centuries, "Physiologus "will delight readers with its ancient tales of ant-lions, centaurs, and hedgehogsOCoand their allegorical significance. OC An elegant little book . . . still diverting to look at today. . . . The woodcuts reproduced from the 1587 Rome edition are alone worth the price of the book.OCOOCoRaymond A. Sokolov, "New York Times Book Review""

Author : KellyAnn Fitzpatrick
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843845416

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Neomedievalism, Popular Culture, and the Academy by KellyAnn Fitzpatrick Pdf

The medieval in the modern world is here explored in a variety of media, from film and book to gaming.

Author : Nigellus Ca 1130-Ca 1200 Wireker,Graydon W (Graydon Wendell) Regenos
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1013958829

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The Book of Daun Burnel the Ass by Nigellus Ca 1130-Ca 1200 Wireker,Graydon W (Graydon Wendell) Regenos Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Thomas Honegger
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786834690

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Introducing the Medieval Dragon by Thomas Honegger Pdf

The aim of this book is to explore the characteristics of the medieval dragon and discuss the sometimes differing views found in the relevant medieval text types. Based on an intimate knowledge of the primary texts, the study presents new interpretations of well-known literary works, and also takes into consideration paintings and other depictions of these beasts. Dragons were designed not only to frighten but also to fire the imagination, and provide a suitably huge and evil creature for the hero to overcome – yet there is far more to them than reptilian adversaries. This book introduces the medieval dragon via brief, accurate and clear chapters on its natural history, religion, literature and folklore, and concludes with how the dragon – from Beowulf to Tolkien, Disney and Potter – is constantly revived.

Author : Oliver J. Thatcher,Edgar Holmes McNeal
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-22
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:4057664635907

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A Source Book for Mediæval History by Oliver J. Thatcher,Edgar Holmes McNeal Pdf

A Source Book for Mediæval History is a scholarly piece by Oliver J. Thatcher. It covers all major historical events and leaders from the Germania of Tacitus in the 1st century to the decrees of the Hanseatic League in the 13th century.

Author : Gregory Clark
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780892367122

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The Spitz Master by Gregory Clark Pdf

Clark examines the book of hours in the context of medieval culture, the book trade in Paris, and the role of Paris as an international center of illumination. 64 illustrations, 40 in color.

Author : Joyce E. Salisbury
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000542684

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The Beast Within by Joyce E. Salisbury Pdf

The third edition of The Beast Within has been updated throughout to include current scholarship, new discussion of definitions, and fresh perspectives on critical animal theory that places animals, rather than humans, at the center of the discourse. Organized thematically, Salisbury incorporates many new sections and subsections to reveal the multifaceted history of the relationship between humans and animals: domestication, animal diseases and pandemics, dogfights, cockfights, Islamic dietary restrictions, menageries and zoos, and animals as entertainers. To show how modern concerns have been informed by medieval precedents, sections have been expanded to uncover medieval understandings of animal sexuality, animals before the law, and vegetarianism and modern ‘fake meat’. The logical narrative concludes with chapters on ‘Animals as Humans’ and ‘Humans as Animals’, demonstrating that the lines between humans and animals have become increasingly blurred from the fourth to the twenty-first century. With an interdisciplinary approach that discusses humans and animals in relation to domestication, symbolism, science, law, religion, food and diet, sexuality, and entertainment, The Beast Within is an essential resource for all students of animal history, literature, and art in the Middle Ages.

Author : Edward Baines
Publisher : London, H. Fisher, R. Fisher & F. Jackson, [pref.1835]
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1835
Category : Cotton
ISBN : RMS:RMSEC20$000026860$$$P

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History of the Cotton Manufacture in Great Britain by Edward Baines Pdf

Author : Apuleius
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2007-09-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781603840323

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The Golden Ass by Apuleius Pdf

Relihan uses alliteration and assonance, rhythm and rhyme, the occasional archaism, the rare neologism, and devices of punctuation and typography, to create a sparkling, luxurious, and readable translation that reproduces something of the linguistic and comic effects of the original Latin. The general Introduction is a masterpiece of clarity, orienting the reader in matters of authorship, narration, genre, religion, structure and style. A generous and browsable index, select bibliography, and maps are included.