Among All Beasts: Affective Naturalism in Late Medieval England
- Author / Editor
- Fradenburg, Aranye.
Among All Beasts: Affective Naturalism in Late Medieval England
- Published
- Carolynn Van Dyke, ed. Rethinking Chaucerian Beasts (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), pp. 13-31.
- Description
- In some modern views, and in John of Trevisa's "On the Properties of Things," animals have feelings and communicate. Similarly, CT and PF demonstrate "the value and pleasure of minds speaking to other minds," whether human or avian. Late medieval interest in encyclopedic listings of things, including animals, may be a cultural result of the plague.
- Alternative Title
- Rethinking Chaucerian Beasts.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General
- Parliament of Fowls