Medieval Bestiaries

Debra Higgs Strickland, PhD (1993), Columbia University, is Professor of Medieval Art History at the University of Glasgow. Her many publications on historical representations of animals, non-humans, and Others include Saracens, Demons, & Jews: Making Monsters in Medieval Art (Princeton, 2003).

• ContentsAcknowledgementsList of FiguresAbbreviationsNotes on Contributors11 IntroductionDebra Higgs Strickland12 Translanguaging and Multimediality in Philippe de Thaon’s Medieval ‘French’ BestiaireEmma Campbell13 The Missing Jewish Bestiary: Animals as “Good to Think with” in Art Made for (and Sometimes by) Medieval JewsMarc M. Epstein14 Virtuous Beasts: the Bestiary in a Sixteenth-Century French Manuscript (BnF Ms. Fr. 1877)Larisa Grollemond15 Unfixed Stars: Engaging Animals in the Islamic History of the BookRebecca Hill16 Tail Wagging the Dog? Illuminating and Writing the BestiaryElizabeth Morrison17 Phoenician Ontology and the Art of Species, or Jean de Meun Rewrites the BestiaryJulie Orlemanski18 Ecocriticism and Enormous Animals in the Second Family BestiaryAlexandra Paddock19 Insects in and around the BestiariesDebra Higgs Strickland20 AfterwordErica FudgeIndex