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Animal Languages in the Middle Ages : Representations of Interspecies Communication / edited by Alison Langdon.

Langdon, Alison, editor.
2018
PN661-PN694
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Title
Animal Languages in the Middle Ages : Representations of Interspecies Communication / edited by Alison Langdon.
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9783319718972
3319718975
3319718967
9783319718965
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71897-2
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Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
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English
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1 online resource (XV, 272 pages 10 illustrations) : illustrations
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10.1007/978-3-319-71897-2 doi
9783319718965
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PN661-PN694
Dewey Decimal Classification
591.590902
Summary
The essays in this interdisciplinary volume explore language, broadly construed, as part of the continued interrogation of the boundaries of human and nonhuman animals in the Middle Ages. Uniting a diverse set of emerging and established scholars, Animal Languages questions the assumed medieval distinction between humans and other animals. The chapters point to the wealth of non-human communicative and discursive forms through which animals function both as vehicles for human meaning and as agents of their own, demonstrating the significance of human and non-human interaction in medieval texts, particularly for engaging with the Other. The book ultimately considers the ramifications of deconstructing the medieval anthropocentric view of language for the broader question of human singularity.
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1 Introduction
Part I Communicating Through Animals
2 Becoming-Birds: The Destabilizing Use of Gendered Animal Imagery in Ancrene Wisse
3 As faucon comen out of muwe": Female Agency and the Language of Falconry
4 Saints and Holy Beasts: Pious Animals in Early-Medieval Insular Saints' Vitae
5 The Speech of Strangers: The Tale of the Andalusi Phoenix
Part II Recovering Animal Languages
6 Bark Like a Man: Performance, Identity, and Boundary in Old English Animal Voice Catalogues
7 In Briddes Wise: Chaucer's Avian Poetics
8 Understanding Hawk-Latin: Animal Language and Universal Rhetoric
9 "Dites le mei, si ferez bien": Fallen Language and Animal Communication in Marie de France's Bisclavret
Part III Embodied Language and Interspecies Dependence
10 On Equine Language: Jordanus Rufus and Thirteenth-Century Communicative Horsemanship
11 No Hoof, No Horse: Hoof Care, Veterinary Medicine and Cross-Species Communication in Late Medieval England
12 Medieval Dog Whisperers: The Poetics of Rehabilitation
13 Embodied Emotion as Animal Language in Le Chevalier au Lion.

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