Representing Beasts in Early Medieval England and ScandinaviaPaperback / softback
Representing Beasts in Early Medieval England and ScandinaviaPaperback / softback For people in the early Middle Ages, the earth, air, water and ether teemed with other beings. Others were objects…
Specifikacia Representing Beasts in Early Medieval England and ScandinaviaPaperback / softback
Representing Beasts in Early Medieval England and ScandinaviaPaperback / softback
For people in the early Middle Ages, the earth, air, water and ether teemed with other beings. Others were objects that a modern beholder would be unlikely to think of as living things, but could yet be considered to possess a vitality that rendered them potent. Some of these were sentient creatures that swam, flew, slithered or stalked through the same environments inhabited by their human contemporaries.
This book discusses the various ways in which the early English and Scandinavians thought about and represented these other inhabitants of their world, and considers the multi-faceted nature of the relationship between people and beasts. Still others were things half glimpsed on a dark night or seen only in the mind's eye; strange beasts that haunted dreams and visions or inhabited exotic lands beyond the compass of everyday knowledge. Drawing on the evidence of material culture, art,