Animal Encounters: Contacts and Concepts in Medieval Britain

by Susan Crane

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Traces of the living animal run across the entire corpus of medieval writing and reveal how pervasively animals mattered in medieval thought and practice. In fascinating scenes of cross-species encounters, a raven offers St. Cuthbert a lump of lard that waterproofs his visitors' boots for a whole year, a scholar finds inspiration for his studies in his cat's perfect focus on killing mice, and a dispossessed knight wins back his heritage only to...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0812244583

ISBN13:9780812244588

Release Date:December 2012

Publisher:University of Pennsylvania Press

Length:280 Pages

Weight:1.30 lbs.

Dimensions:1.1" x 6.1" x 9.1"

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