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Beauty and the Beast: The Influence of the Medieval Bestiary in Text and Image

2016
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The role of animals in the Middle Ages has recently become a popular topic for research in all realms of medieval studies. Given this interest, it seems a good time to turn attention to perhaps the most important source of information about animals in the period, the bestiary. The animal stories contained in the bestiary were used as inspiration for public sermons, daily reading for the religious, and entertainment by the nobility, thereby exerting a powerful hold over the understanding and interpretation of animals in the medieval world. This session examines the influential role of the text and imagery of the bestiary. The iconic stories and stable iconography of the bestiary were so well-known, in fact, that the bestiary's legacy was instantly recognizable, even when the animals were separated from their manuscript origins. Papers for this session address the textual influence of the bestiary in other literary traditions and artistic media that integrate iconography traditionally associated with bestiaries.Elizabeth Morrison

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