Our Dogs, Our Selves
Subtitle: Dogs in Medieval and Early Modern Art, Literature, and Society
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 425
ISBN-13: 9789004269163
Subjects: Dogs in literature
Description: The ubiquity of references to dogs in medieval and early modern texts and images must at some level reflect their actual presence in those worlds, yet scholarly consideration of this material is rare and scattered across diverse sources. This volume addresses that gap, bringing together fifteen essays that examine the appearance, meaning, and significance of dogs in painting, sculpture, manuscripts, literature, and legal records of the period, reaching beyond Europe to include cultural material from medieval Japan and Islam. While primarily art historical in focus, the authors approach the subject from a range of disciplines and with varying methodology that ultimately reveals as much about dogs as about the societies in which they lived.