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