Introducing the Medieval Ass
«A must read for anyone with an interest in medieval history and/or asses!»
The Birdbooker Report
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. Les mer
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'In the medieval world, the ass’s reputation – sacred or profane, derided or acclaimed – was codified in fact, fiction and image. However, unusual its binary nature may seem to the modern-day reader, paradoxical rhetoric was a common feature in medieval beast genres, and the fact that the ass had contesting reputations offers multiple avenues for analysis.' - Read more about this on page 3 of the Booklaunch https://edition.pagesuite-professional.co.uk/html5/reader/production/default.aspx?pubname=&edid=eacd7c66-df5c-4335-86ee-cad05c826bda
Detaljer
- Forlag
- University of Wales Press
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 128
- ISBN
- 9781786836229
- Utgivelsesår
- 2020
- Format
- 20 x 13 cm
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«A must read for anyone with an interest in medieval history and/or asses!»
The Birdbooker Report
"Reliably-researched and well-written presentations of iconic animals as they were understood – both as creatures in and of themselves, and as metaphors, characters, and in other representative forms – by the people of the Middle Ages."
The Well-Read Naturalist