The Medieval world of nature
Subtitle: a book of essays
By: edited by Joyce E. Salisbury.
Contributors: Salisbury, Joyce E.
Series: Garland reference library of the humanities ;; v. 1550.; Garland medieval casebooks ;; v. 5; Garland reference library of the humanities ;; v. 1550.; Garland reference library of the humanities.; v. 5.
Publisher: Garland
Published: 1993
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
Subjects: Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism.; Nature in literature.; Allegory.; Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The mirror of nature distorted : the medieval artist's dilemma in depicting animals / Nona C. Flores; title: Falconry and medieval views of nature / Robin S. Oggins; title: The protohistory of pike in western culture / Richard C. Hoffmann; title: Animal images in Gottfried von Strassburg's Tristan / Margaret Schleissner; title: Martyrs, monks, insects, and animals / Maureen A. Tilley; title: The shadow of reason : explanations of intelligent animal behavior in the thirteenth century / Peter G. Sobol; title: The goddess Natura in the Occitan lyric / Veronica Fraser; title: Wild folk and lunatics in medieval romance / David A. Sprunger; title: The land, who owns it? / John Hilary Martin; title: Cultured nature in Chaucer's early dream-poems / Laura L. Howes; title: Dante's utopian landscape : the garden of God / Brenda Deen Schildgen; title: Father God and Mother Earth : nature-mysticism in the Anglo-Saxon world / Karen Jolly.