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1. The Art of Memory and the Bestiary

  • Beryl Rowland
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Beasts and Birds of the Middle Ages
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© 2016 University of Pennsylvania Press, 3905 Spruce Street Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-4112

© 2016 University of Pennsylvania Press, 3905 Spruce Street Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-4112

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Contents IX
  3. Acknowledgments XI
  4. Introduction 1
  5. 1. The Art of Memory and the Bestiary 12
  6. 2. The Aviary-Bestiary at the Houghton Library, Harvard 26
  7. 3. Workshop Methods in English Late Twelfth-Century Illumination and the Production of Luxury Bestiaries 53
  8. 4 The Phoenix: Its Nature and Its Place in the Tradition of the Physiologus 69
  9. 5. Spring, Love, Birdsong: The Nightingale in Two Cultures 88
  10. 6. Duel of Bestiaries 96
  11. 7. An Elephant in the Litany: Further Thoughts on an English Book of Hours in the Walters Art Gallery (W. 102) 106
  12. 8. Bestiary Influences in Two Thirteenth- Century Romances 134
  13. 9. Animal Symbolism in the Prophecies of Merlin 151
  14. 10. Notes on Beasts in the Histoire ancienne jusqu’à César of Rogier, Châtelain de Lille 164
  15. 11. Peacocks and Preachers: Analytic Technique in Marcus of Orvieto’s Liber de moralitatibus, Vatican lot. MS S93S 179
  16. Appendix: Manuscripts of Western Medieval Bestiary Versions 197
  17. Bibliography of Bestiary Studies Since 1962 205
  18. Contributors 215
  19. Index 217
https://doi.org/10.9783/9781512805512-003

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Contents IX
  3. Acknowledgments XI
  4. Introduction 1
  5. 1. The Art of Memory and the Bestiary 12
  6. 2. The Aviary-Bestiary at the Houghton Library, Harvard 26
  7. 3. Workshop Methods in English Late Twelfth-Century Illumination and the Production of Luxury Bestiaries 53
  8. 4 The Phoenix: Its Nature and Its Place in the Tradition of the Physiologus 69
  9. 5. Spring, Love, Birdsong: The Nightingale in Two Cultures 88
  10. 6. Duel of Bestiaries 96
  11. 7. An Elephant in the Litany: Further Thoughts on an English Book of Hours in the Walters Art Gallery (W. 102) 106
  12. 8. Bestiary Influences in Two Thirteenth- Century Romances 134
  13. 9. Animal Symbolism in the Prophecies of Merlin 151
  14. 10. Notes on Beasts in the Histoire ancienne jusqu’à César of Rogier, Châtelain de Lille 164
  15. 11. Peacocks and Preachers: Analytic Technique in Marcus of Orvieto’s Liber de moralitatibus, Vatican lot. MS S93S 179
  16. Appendix: Manuscripts of Western Medieval Bestiary Versions 197
  17. Bibliography of Bestiary Studies Since 1962 205
  18. Contributors 215
  19. Index 217
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