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La leggenda del collare del cervo nel "Tirant lo Blanc" by Bibuser, last updated: 2015-09-10 16:54

"Spuria Macri". Ein Anhang zu "Macer Floridus, De viribus herbarum" by Bibuser, last updated: 2015-08-11 14:51

Lions, tigers and bears: encounters with wild animals and bestial imagery in the context of crusading the Latin East by Bibuser, last updated: 2015-08-11 14:40: Abstract Animals were an essential component of medieval life and pervaded contemporary art and literature, but specific reasons for their presence in historical narratives are not often investigated. Livestock and beasts of burden had an important logistical role in the crusades, but animals also appeared in a symbolic context, especially those deemed to be “wild.” Preachers of the crusade and authors of historical narratives used these creatures to communicate with their audiences, to enshrine crusading as part of God’s divine plan and to differentiate crusaders from their enemies. Encounters with wild animals also featured as part of the penitential aspects of crusading. Case studies involving Wicher the Swabian and Godfrey of Bouillon demonstrate how crusade authors blended fact and fiction, and adjusted elements of certain micro-narratives in order to elevate the reputations of individual crusaders. Animals and the natural world provided a symbolic code which enabled authors to demonstrate their learning and to communicate crusading ideas and events. (source: http://www.brepolsonline.net/doi/10.1484/J.VIATOR.1.103142 )

Prudent Pugs: do purportedly irrational animals have reasons for action? by Bibuser, last updated: 2015-08-11 14:33

Political animals: human/animal life in "Bisclaveret" and "Yonec" by Bibuser, last updated: 2015-08-11 14:28: Bisclavret and Yonec — two lais by Marie de France — feature instances of human/animal metamorphosis that are linked to their interrogation of what constitutes humanity and courtliness. Drawing on Agamben’s discussion of the human/animal distinction in The Open, this article examines these lais together, exploring how each seems to question the definition of what might be described as human identity while, at the same time, suggesting that humanity is not restricted to those in possession of a stable, human shape. I suggest that, in each case, there seems to be a human cost to this exploration of humanity: as the courtliness of transforming characters is gradually unveiled, other characters’ claim to full humanity is revealed to be open to revision. Both stories, I argue, link definitions of animality and humanity to interpretative and narrative processes in ways that treat humanity as a matter of judgment rather than essence, and both suggest that defining what counts as human has consequences for how lives may become subject to supposedly legitimate forms of violence and political power. (Source: http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/54396/ )

An Environmental History of the Middle Ages. The Crucible of Nature. by Bibuser, last updated: 2015-08-11 14:23: The Middle Ages was a critical and formative time for Western approaches to our natural surroundings. An Environmental History of the Middle Ages is a unique and unprecedented cultural survey of attitudes towards the environment during this period. Humankind’s relationship with the environment shifted gradually over time from a predominantly adversarial approach to something more overtly collaborative, until a series of ecological crises in the late Middle Ages. With the advent of shattering events such as the Great Famine and the Black Death, considered efflorescences of the climate downturn known as the Little Ice Age that is comparable to our present global warming predicament, medieval people began to think of and relate to their natural environment in new and more nuanced ways. They now were made to be acutely aware of the consequences of human impacts upon the environment, anticipating the cyclical, "new ecology" approach of the modern world. Exploring the entire medieval period from 500 to 1500, and ranging across the whole of Europe, from England and Spain to the Baltic and Eastern Europe, John Aberth focuses his study on three key areas: the natural elements of air, water, and earth; the forest; and wild and domestic animals. Through this multi-faceted lens, An Environmental History of the Middle Ages sheds fascinating new light on the medieval environmental mindset. It will be essential reading for students, scholars and all those interested in the Middle Ages. ( Source: https://www.routledge.com/products/9780415779463)

Of Roosters and Repetitio: Ambrose's Aeterne rerum conditor by Bibuser, last updated: 2015-08-11 13:43: This article examines Ambrose’s use of repetitio in his morning hymn Aeterne rerum conditor. Thanks in part to a long tradition of criticism that has focused primarily on the unadorned ‘simplicity’ of the Ambrosian hymn, relatively little attention has been paid to the poet’s artful use of rhetorical figures. Aeterne rerum conditor features a rooster whose repetitive cry is replicated in the third and fourth stanzas of the hymn in a striking figure that, upon a close reading, is found to be integrally connected with the poem’s meaning and message. (source: DOI 10.1163/15700720-12341158)

Animals and the Law: a Comparison involving Three Thirteenth-Century Legal Texts from the Latin East by Bibuser, last updated: 2015-08-11 13:33

Der Eber in der deutschen Literatur des Mittelalters by Bibuser, last updated: 2015-08-10 12:53

„Aus grans pescheurs eschapent les anguilles“ by Bibuser, last updated: 2015-08-07 19:10

Am Beispiel des Esels. Denken, Wissen und Weisheit in literarischen Darstellungen der „asinitas“ by Bibuser, last updated: 2015-08-05 17:37

Animals and Otherness in the Middle Ages: an Overview from the Garden of Eden by Bibuser, last updated: 2015-08-05 17:19: This publication has its origin in the colloquium Animals and Otherness in the Middle Ages held at the Faculty of Geography and History at Complutense University in Madrid in February 2011. This publication aims to bring together scholars from a range of disciplines to consider the diverse use of animals in constructions of ‘otherness’. It encompasses not only conceptualized difference, but also physical societal differences expressed in the varied treatment of real and imagined animals. The contributions also discuss the use of animals to emphasize contrast more broadly, such as the juxtaposition between good and evil, or positive and negative features. The colloquium was organized by the Medieval Animal Data Network and the Universitad Complutense de Madrid, by Francisco de Asís García García, Mónica Ann Walker Vadillo and María Victoria Chico Picaza. (source: www.mad.hypotheses.org/78) INDEX: — Animalia extranea et stupenda ad videndum. Describing and naming exotic beasts in Cairo sultan’s menagerie: T. Buquet — From the vita pauli to the legenda breviarii: real and imaginary animals as a guide to the hermit in the desert: L. Fenelli — Animals and otherness in mamluk Egypt and Syria: Y. Frenkel — Avicenna’s philosophy of the animal soul in context: D. González Ginocchio — Dogs and human relationship between solidarity and otherness in the leges barbarorum: M. Iuffrida — Draconcopedes, or, the faces of devilish virgins: G. Jaritz — Animal fables set among the biblical cycle of the nave of Saint-Savin-sur-Gartempe: D. Kottmann — The dragon’s skull: how can zooarchaeologists contribute to our understanding of otherness in the middle ages?: A. Pluskowski — Snake pernicious and venomous. the malicious and dangerous other in medieval bulgarian and early modern charms: S. Tsonkova — Ambiguous figures of otherness: redoubtable beasts in princely badges of the late middle ages: O. Vassilieva-Codognet.

L'animal dans l'antiquité by Bibuser, last updated: 2015-08-05 17:12: « L’un a les flancs bleutés, l’autre la poitrine gluante; une nageoire pousse ici sur un dos, surgit là une queue; tantôt la tête manque, tantôt le reste; la main de celui-ci ondule, et celui-là réclame en hurlant ses pieds qui s’évanouissent. » Introduisant à la polymorphie de l’animal, le frontispice, ainsi commenté par Philostrate, est déployé à travers ce receuil qui explore la différence entre homme, animal et plante. De la médecine à la religion, en passant par les modèles et contre-modèles politiques, les métaphores et les fables, l’imagerie et la logique, textes et images y sont analysés. Car l’animal (dit-on même « animal » en grec?) est l’un des lieux de polémique majeurs pour déterminer les ruptures au sein de l’Antiquité gréco-latine et mieux fixer les coupures entre Antiquité et Modernité. (source: www.vrin.fr) INDEX: Homme, animal, plante: — U. Dierauer: Raison ou instinct? Le développement de la zoopsychologie antique — J.-F. Balaudé: Parenté du vivant et végétarisme radical: le «défi» d’Empédocle — L. Ayache: L’animal, les hommes et l’ancienne médecine — R. J. Hankinson: Le phénomène et l’obscur: Galien et les animaux — G. Sissa: La génération automatique — M. Bastit: La science hylémorphique de la marche des animaux — G. Rocca-Serra: Homme et animal dans la physiognomie antique — G. Romeyer Dherbey: Les animaux familiers — Politiques de l’animalité: F. Wolff: L’animal et le dieu: deux modèles pour l’homme. Remarques pouvant servir à comprendre l’invention de l’animal — C. Viano: Héraclite et le plaisir des animaux: relativisme ou jugement de valeur? — A. Brancacci: Le modèle animal chez Antisthène — L. Brisson: Le corps animal comme signe de la valeur d’une âme chez Platon — R. Bodéüs: Les considérations aristotéliciennes sur la bestialité: traditions et perspectives nouvelles — J.-L. Labarrière: Logos endiathetos et logos prophorikosdans la polémique entre le Portique et la Nouvelle-académie — E. de Fontenay: La philantrôpia à l’épreuve des bêtes — G. Lanata: Thèmes animaliers dans le platonisme moyen: le cas de Celse — L. Bodson: Le témoignage de Pline l’Ancien sur la conception romaine de l’animal — R. Sorabji: Esprits d’animaux Animaux métaphoriques et fabuleux: — J. Bollack: L’homme entre son semblable et le monstre — M.-L. Desclos: «Le renard dit au lion…»(Alcibiade Majeur, 123 A), ou Socrate à la manière d’Ésope — J.-Frère: Les métaphores animales de la vaillance dans l’œuvre de Platon — F. Frontisi-Ducroux: Actéon, ses chiens et leur maître — F. Lissarague: L’homme, le singe et le satyre — B. Sergent: Pélops et Atalante, ou de quelques manières d’être du cheval — M. Tasinato: La métamorphose du curieux: à propos de L’âne d’or — F. Bader: Mars, avril, mai: le pic, la louve, le sanglier et la truie — C. Radogna: La zoologie médiévale: le crocodile entre historia et ratio — S. Ebbesen: Le bestiaire de la logique — G. E. R. Lloyd: Les animaux de l’antiquité étaient bons à penser: quelques points de comparasion entre Aristote et Huainanzi.

Vivre avec le loup ? 3000 ans de conflit by Bibuser, last updated: 2015-08-05 17:05: Alors que le loup recolonise l’Europe, la question de la « cohabitation » ne se cantonne plus aux « espaces naturels ». Les régions de plaine sont touchées. Au regard de l’histoire, le processus de « restauration » qui s’effectue tient à l’inversion du statut de l’animal sauvage : jadis « nuisible », le loup est devenu, à marche forcée, « strictement protégé ». Devant ce retour inédit, les hommes se divisent, comme ils l’ont fait des siècles durant pour chasser leur concurrent. Tandis que l’on hésite pour trouver des compromis, le loup étend son territoire. Aujourd’hui il place les sociétés humaines dans une situation inéquitable : une minorité paie le prix des décisions prises en haut lieu. Frappés de plein fouet, éleveurs et bergers protestent. La situation contraste avec le temps où un consensus régnait entre villes et campagnes. Dans cette situation d’urgence un état des lieux s’impose à la lumière du passé et du présent, en France comme à l’étranger. Du 9 au 12 octobre 2013, une rencontre a réuni pour la première fois historiens et sociologues, géographes et écologues, chercheurs et spécialistes, acteurs et victimes, témoins et observateurs. Elle s’est tenue à Saint-Martin-Vésubie dans les Alpes-Maritimes, site emblématique du loup. En voici les résultats qui interpellent les politiques et les opinions publiques. Vingt ans de recolonisation engagent les décideurs à tenir compte des réalités, après une réflexion contextualisée selon les territoires. L’homme et le loup ? Un contrat à renégocier.

Diccionario del simbolismo animal by Bibuser, last updated: 2015-08-05 16:57: El Diccionario de simbolismo animal es con mucho el libro más documentado sobre el tema. Se estudian más de doscientos animales, cada uno con múltiples significados, que varían en función de la característica animal puesta en juego. El león predador representa al diablo, el león que duerme con un ojo abierto, al vigilante, etc. Es precisamente la riqueza de comportamientos distintos de los animales lo que los convierte en extraordinarios significantes. En palabras de Aristóteles: «En los comportamientos de los animales se pueden observar infinidad de imitaciones que hacen de la vida humana». Centrado en la cultura europea, el Diccionario aborda el simbolismo en distintos ámbitos, todos ellos relacionados: mítico, religioso, artístico, literario y etnográfico. Todas las interpretaciones están apoyadas en datos que proceden, entre otras fuentes, de autores clásicos, de los bestiarios medievales, de los emblematistas, de la literatura culta y de la tradición oral. El conocimiento del significado de los símbolos ---que como imágenes que son valen más que mil palabras---permitirá al lector entender aspectos oscuros del arte, la literatura, las creencias y los ritos y tener una visión más acabada de la cultura tradicional europea, cuya inmensa riqueza en simbolismo sin duda le sorprenderá.

Animals and Hunters in the Late Middle Ages : Evidence from the BnF MS fr. 616 of the Livre de chasse by Gaston Fébus by Bibuser, last updated: 2015-08-05 16:55

Beavers in Britain’s past by Bibuser, last updated: 2015-07-31 11:46

Medieval fish, fisheries and fishponds in England by Bibuser, last updated: 2015-07-31 11:45

Some peripatetic Birds: Treecreepers, Partridges, Woodpeckers by Bibuser, last updated: 2015-07-15 12:13

The Theme of Cockfighting in Burgundian Romanesque Sculpture by Bibuser, last updated: 2015-07-15 08:50

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