BESTIARY

bĕsˈchēĕrˌē, a type of medieval book that was widely popular, particularly from the 12th to 14th cent. The bestiary presumed to describe the animals of the world and to show what human traits they severally exemplify. The bestiaries are the source of a bewildering array of fabulous beasts and of many misconceptions of real ones. They were the artist's guide to animal symbolism in religious building, painting, and sculpture. Physiologus (the naturalist), an ancient work of the type, was probably the chief source of the bestiaries. A Middle English version is translated in J. L. Weston, The Chief Middle English Poets (1914). Variations of the genre remain popular. Modern authors who have written bestiaries include Lewis Carroll, James Thurber, T. H. White, and Jorge Luis Borges.

See W. Clark and M. McMunn, Beasts and Birds of the Middle Ages (1989).

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books on: Bestiary  - 776 results

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The Book of Beasts: Being a Translation from a Latin Bestiary of the Twelfth Century
Book by T. H. White; G. P. Putnams Sons, 1954
Subjects: Bestiaries
...we are asked for 'the author' of the bestiary at its fullest, as here reproduced...Pedigree to the particular tradition of the bestiary itself, the present translator has omitted...This brings us to the branches of the Bestiary in general, rather than to its roots...
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Baudrillard's Bestiary: Baudrillard and Culture
Book by Mike Gane; Routledge, 1991
Subjects: Baudrillard, Jean, Culture, Sociology--France--History
...permission in writing from the publishers. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Gane, Michael, 1943- Baudrillards bestiary: Baudrillard and culture. 1. French Philosophy. Baudrillard, Jean I. Title 194 Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication...
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A Chinese Bestiary: Strange Creatures from the Guideways through Mountains and Seas
Book by Richard E. Strassberg; University of California Press, 2002
Subjects: China--Description And Travel, Folklore--China, Mythology, Chinese
A CHINESE BESTIARY Strange Creatures from the GUIDEWAYS THROUGH MOUNTAINS AND SEAS Edited and Translated with Commentary by RICHARD E. STRASSBERG UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS Berkeley Los Angeles London
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Twentieth-Century Bestiary
Book by Scientific American, inc.; Simon and Schuster, 1955
Subjects: Animal Behavior--Popular Works, Zoology--Popular Works
TWENTIETH-CENTURY BESTIARY a SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN book SIMON AND SCHUSTER NEW YORK
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The Need for Enemies: A Bestiary of Political Forms
Book by F. G. Bailey, Frederick George Bailey; Cornell University Press, 1998
Subjects: Enemies (Persons), Opposition (Political Science), Orissa (India)--Politics And Government, Political Culture--India--Orissa, Political Psychology, Rhetoric--Political Aspects--India--Orissa
...America. Library of Congress Cataloging -in-Publication Data Bailey, F. G. Frederick George The need for enemies : a bestiary of political forms / F. C. Bailey. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8014-3470-X cloth...
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"Furious and Formidable": A Lewis & Clark Bestiary
Journal article; Social Education, Vol. 68, 2004
"Furious and Formidable": A Lewis Amp; Clark Bestiary. To PRESIDENT THOMAS JEFFERSON, who sent Lewis and Clark on their adventure, the fauna (the animals) of the West were interesting...
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The Elephant and the Law: the Medieval Jewish Minority Adapts a Christian Motif
Journal article by Marc Michael Epstein; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 76, 1994
Subjects: Art criticism, Art history, Elephants, Judaism, Middle Ages
...elephant and obelisk. The Elephant of the Bestiary in Medieval Hebrew Literature Though...particularly in the many manuscripts of the bestiary.(20) This is the description of the...Although medieval Jews adopted this bestiary tradition, they obviously had to adapt...
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Interpreting Female Agency and Responsibility in the Miller's Tale and the Merchant's Tale
Journal article by Joseph D. Parry; Philological Quarterly, Vol. 80, 2001
Subjects: Authors, English--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Canterbury Tales (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Characters and characteristics in literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Characters and characteristics in literature--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Chaucer, Geoffrey--Criticism, interpretation, etc., English literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc., English literature--History, Women--Portrayals, depictions, etc.
...evokes the Virgin Mary and the medieval bestiary tradition), Chaucer makes the process...significance, as, for instance, the bestiary tradition exemplifies. In Kolves reading...instance, the Bible and the medieval bestiary. (28) Chaucer, of course, plays...
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`Elementary, My Dear Djuna': Unreadable Simplicity in Barnes's Creatures in an Alphabet
Journal article by Daniela Caselli; Critical Survey, Vol. 13, 2001
Subjects: Barnes, Djuna--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Characters and characteristics in literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Creatures in an Alphabet. (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Narration (Rhetoric)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Natural history--Portrayals, depictions, etc.
...life she wrote a `slight work, a `bestiary called Creatures in an Alphabet, a sad...Following a similar pattern, the label `bestiary is used to describe Creatures in an Alphabet...definition of Creatures in an Alphabet as a bestiary and in exploring how this text questions...
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From Poetic to Prosaic Animal Portraits: Arreola's "El Elefante
Journal article by Stamos Metzidakis; The Romanic Review, Vol. 85, 1994
Subjects: Arreola, Juan Jose--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Elephants--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Literature, Modern--Analysis, Poetry--Analysis
...the elephant what earlier bestiaries made of all animals: non...cornerstones of a new type of bestiary, one that looks at elephants...if one prefers. It is a bestiary that takes the side of things...to suggest that the modern bestiary takes its distance from more...
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A Bestiary of Blairism
Magazine article by Owen Hatherley; New Statesman, Vol. 138, July 27, 2009
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Ground Control: Fear and Happiness in the 21st-century City (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews
A Bestiary of Blairism. by Owen Hatherley Ground Control: Fear and Happiness in...from rigorous sociology to anecdote, Ground Control serves as a horrible bestiary of Blairisms jargon-laden thuggery and its manifestations in everyday...
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A Bestiary of Useful Fibers
Magazine article; Whole Earth, Summer 1997
Subjects: Animal fibers--Usage, Textile industry--Associations and societies
A bestiary of useful fibers Merino Sheep Domesticated for 12,000 years, sheep wools, depending on the breed, either become apparels or...
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Celtic Creatures - A Bestiary of Ancient Ireland
Magazine article by Steenie Harvey; World and I, Vol. 15, June 2000
Subjects: Animals, Mythical--Portrayals, Book of Kells (Sacred work)--Criticism and interpretation, Ireland--Myths and legends, Mythical animals--Portrayals
Celtic Creatures - A Bestiary of Ancient Ireland. by Steenie Harvey The Book of Kells, an illuminated...wonderful embellishments were possibly the blueprint for later medieval bestiaries that introduced the fabulous unicorn and ant lion. However, like...
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Ballad of the Green Man: Richard Hayman Traces the Changing Significance of the Green Man, a Term Coined in the 1930s for a Medieval Image of a Face Sprouting Foliage, the Meaning of Which Has Transformed Itself across the Centuries
Magazine article by Richard Hayman; History Today, Vol. 60, April 2010
Subjects: Art objects--History, Icons--History
...interpreted by reference to the Bible or the Bestiary, the medieval book of beasts that explains...churches to feature representations of bestiary creatures in its architectural carvings...decorative as opposed to moral (i.e. bestiary), context. Green men are commonly...
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James Macmillan: a Conversation and Commentary
Magazine article by James MacMillan, Richard McGregor; Musical Times, Vol. 151, Autumn 2010
Subjects: Cultural identity, Spirituality, Theology
...darkness as for example in the Scotch bestiary} Is parody also darkness because in...ingrethents in that piece, and in A Scotch bestiary. I think with that piece Ive gone back...usually, apart from maybe the Scotch bestiary, there isnt really that kind of direct...
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The Nature of the Bestiary
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), July 22, 2005
The Nature of the Bestiary. PROMS 2005 BBCPO/Noseda/ MacMillan Stephen Pettitt Plastic fantastic...London premiere of James MacMillans new organ concerto, A Scotch Bestiary, written for Disney Hall, Los Angeles, under the composers own...
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Frankenstein Creations
Newspaper article; The Journal (Newcastle, England), May 11, 2006
...Tamzin Lewis. ou may not know what a bestiary is (I didnt) but for this exhibition it helps. A bestiary is a medieval manuscript describing real...characteristics and behaviours. In A Modern Bestiary at Sunderlands Northern Gallery for Contemporary...
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Legendary Bonnie Koloc to Perform at Geneva Folk Festival
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), September 4, 2004
...worked together to create "A Bestiary," a collection of linocuts...A multifaceted work, "A Bestiary" has been acquired by the...Fairs art salon in 1996. "Bestiaries have been done since the Middle...Produced by Howard Levy, "A Bestiary" features a range of instruments...
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Wonderful Curiosities Fill Exhibitions
Newspaper article; The Chronicle (Toowoomba, Australia), March 6, 2010
Subjects: Art exhibitions--Exhibitions, Art--Exhibitions
...of foxes and deities. Brad Nunns bestiary of tricksters includes a writhing...Gallery To continue the theme of Bestiary a visit to the Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery and the exhibition "Borges Bestiary and Other creatures" will confirm...
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Long Car Journey with a Youngster? Here's the Secret
Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), March 9, 2006
...Her Maj at the Senedds opening. It manifested itself in our glorious monarch ignominiously taking her place among MacDonalds bestiary, and giving a clipped and high-pitched hellew here, there and, well, everywhere really. This now-surreal nursery rhyme...
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encyclopedia articles on: Bestiary  - 5 results

 
 
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Bestiary
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
BESTIARY bes cheer e, a type of...12th to 14th cent. The bestiary presumed to describe the...severally exemplify. The bestiaries are the source of a bewildering...the chief source of the bestiaries. A Middle English version...
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Illumination , in Art
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...early gospels, fashioned for rich patrons, then psalters and books of hours . A few other sorts of manuscripts, such as the bestiary , were, by tradition, profusely illustrated. The Golden Age of Illumination Paris was the birthplace of new ideas in book...
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White, T. H
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Goshawk (1951), a book on falconry, and A Book of Beasts (1954), an annotated translation of a 12th-century Latin bestiary. See biography by S. T. Warner (1968); study by J. Crane (1974). ____________________ Copyright...
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Folktale
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...North Americans); the fable pointing to a moral (Aesops fables); and the beast epic (e.g., Reynard the Fox ; see bestiary ). Myths, which are more difficult to define satisfactorily, treat happenings of a long-ago time; they generally concern...
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Beast Epic
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
BEAST EPIC see bestiary . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.


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