Making Animals Mean: Speciest Hermeneutics in the 'Physiologus' of Theobaldus

Author / Editor
Kordecki, Lesley.

Title
Making Animals Mean: Speciest Hermeneutics in the 'Physiologus' of Theobaldus

Published
Nona C. Flores, ed. Animals in the Middle Ages: A Book of Essays (New York: Garland, 1996), pp. 85-101.

Description
The overt hermeneutic directives of many animal books are evident in HF, WBP, and, especially, the silencing of the crow in ManT. The latter combines with the Parson's "antiliterary prologue" to undercut the whole of CT.

Alternative Title
Animals in the Middle Ages: A Book of Essays.

Chaucer Subjects
Manciple and His Tale.
House of Fame.
Wife of Bath and Her Tale.