Holy and Noble Beasts : Encounters with Animals in Medieval Literature
- Author / Editor
- Salter, David.
Holy and Noble Beasts : Encounters with Animals in Medieval Literature
- Published
- Cambridge : D. S. Brewer, 2001.
- Physical Description
- viii, 168 pp.
- Description
- A study of the representation of animals in late-medieval literature, focusing on how human identity is defined in relation to animals. Using examples from late-medieval hagiography and romance, Salter argues that medieval writers reflect on their own humanity and explore the meaning of abstract values and ideas through depictions of animals. Refers to WBPT, KnT, FranT, MkT and MLT.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
- Knight and His Tale.
- Franklin and His Tale.
- Monk and His Tale.
- Man of Law and His Tale.