Animals on the Edge. From Exotic Beasts to Nonhuman Transcendence

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Edited by Katja Fält

Foreword by Gerhard Jaritz

Publication date: December, 2023

Pages: 176, colour

ISBN 978-615-6696-09-0                        Paperback, €31.00

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Foreword by Gerhard Jaritz


Introduction by Katja Fält


CHAPTER 1. Animals on the Edge in NLW MS Peniarth 32

Coral Lumbley


CHAPTER 2. The Goat of Scanderbeg

Etleva Lala


CHAPTER 3. Disguise, Identity, and Horse Sense: The Case of Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne

Antha Cotten-Spreckelmeyer


CHAPTER 4. Semper asellus erit? Hybrid Animals in Nigel de Longchamps’ Speculum stultorum

Maximilian Wick


CHAPTER 5. Beasts along Boundaries: Elephants in the Medieval West

Kiwako Ogata


CHAPTER 6. Animals on the Edge of Late Medieval Hebrew Manuscripts

András Borgó


CHAPTER 7. Angela of Foligno, in Love, with Animals

William Robert


Notes on Contributors

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Editor(s)
Katja Fält
Imprint
Trivent Medieval
Book series
Animals in Medieval Contexts
Book series editor(s)
Katherine S. Kanne
ISBN (hardcover)
978-615-6696-08-3
ISBN (paperback)
978-615-6696-09-0
eISBN
978-615-6696-10-6
Publication date
December, 2023
Page numbers
176

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Was there a horse sense in the medieval period? Why did word-licking dogs inhabit manuscript borders? The seven intriguing articles in this publication explore animals on the edge and the boundaries between humans and animals. These articles provide insights into the discussions in animal studies and medieval studies about the multiple roles of medieval fauna, challenging our understanding of how animals were understood in the Middle Ages. The authors of the articles demonstrate how humans have always constructed animals but also have been constructed by animals. The examples are drawn from manuscripts, fables, textual and visual accounts, as well as material culture. This publication raises interesting aspects about the profound and ambiguous relationship between animals and humans, edges and boundaries, hybridity and anthropomorphism, ideas and identities.

Katja Fält received her PhD in art history at the University of Jyväskylä (Finland) in 2012. Her dissertation "Wall Paintings, Workshops and Visual Production in the Medieval Diocese of Turku from 1430 to 1540" examined wall paintings attributed to church builders in about thirty medieval stone churches. Her research interests include medieval wall paintings, representations of gender, corporeality and the passion of Christ in medieval art. Currently, Dr. Fält works at Tampere University as a senior specialist.

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