Description: Representing Beasts in Early Medieval England and Scandinavia, Paperback by Bintley, Michael D. J. (EDT); Williams, Thomas J. T. (EDT), ISBN 1783273690, ISBN-13 9781783273690, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US For people in the early Middle Ages, the earth, air, water and ether teemed with other beings. Some of these were sentient creatures that swam, flew, slithered or stalked through the same environments inhabited by their human contemporaries. Others were objects that a modern beholder would be unlikely to think of as living things, but could yet be considered to possess a vitality that rendered them potent. Still others were things half glimpsed on a dark night or seen only in the minds eye; strange beasts that haunted dreams and visions or inhabited exotic lands beyond the compass of everyday book discusses the various ways in which the early English and Scandinavians thought about and represented these other inhabitants of their world, and considers the multi-faceted nature of the relationship between people and beasts. Drawing on the evidence of material culture, art, language, literature, place-names and landscapes, the studies presented here reveal a world where the boundaries between humans, animals, monsters and objects were blurred and often permeable, and where to represent the bestial could be to holda mirror to the . BINTLEY is Lecturer in Early Medieval Literature and Culture at Birkbeck, University of London; THOMAS WILLIAMS is a former curator of Early Medieval Coins at the British : Nol Adams, John Baker, Michael D. J. Bintley, Sue Brunning, Lszl Sndor Chardonnens, Della Hooke, Eric Lacey, Richard North, Marijane Osborn, Victoria Symons, Thomas J. Williams
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Author: Della Hooke
Publication Name: Representing Beasts in Early Medieval England and Scandinavia
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer, The Limited
Series: Anglo-Saxon Studies
Publication Year: 2019
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 17.3 Oz
Number of Pages: 312 Pages
