A thorough investigation of the saint and animal topos: its origins, growth and development.

Praise for the first edition: "...a brave and fascinating exploration of an area that has so far been rather neglected by both historical and literary critics.

These interdisciplinary essays focus on animals as symbols, ideas, or images in medieval art and literature.

This book explores views of the natural world in the late Middle Ages, especially as expressed in Livre de chasse (Book of the Hunt), the most influential hunti

The essays in this interdisciplinary volume explore language, broadly construed, as part of the continued interrogation of the boundaries of human and nonhuman