Animal Encounters: Contacts and Concepts in Medieval Britain
- Author / Editor
- Crane, Susan.
Animal Encounters: Contacts and Concepts in Medieval Britain
- Published
- Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013.
- Physical Description
- vii, 270 pp.
- Series
- The Middle Ages Series
- Description
- Deconstructs the human/animal binary once useful in the emerging field of animal studies by casting anew these relationships into a "multiplicity of intersecting and competing distinctions that better reflect medieval ways of thinking." Through close literary analysis, explores how "bodies, minds, and affects interpenetrate within and across species." Included in this "multiplicity" are ManT, PF, SNT, and Th. Chapter 5, "Falcon and Princess," discusses the parallels between culture and species in SqT.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism
- Parliament of Fowls
- Squire and His Tale
- Tale of Sir Thopas
- Second Nun and Her Tale
- Manciple and His Tale