Making Animals Mean: Speciest Hermeneutics in the 'Physiologus' of Theobaldus
- Author / Editor
- Kordecki, Lesley.
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.