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Bestiary Imagery in Hebrew Manuscripts of the Thirteenth Century
ReligionsIn medieval bestiaries, knowledge about animals and their behavior is regularly given a Christian moral interpretation. This article explores the use of imagery related to the bestiary tradition in three Hebrew books made around the year 1300, focusing ...
Adam Cohen
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Le bestiaire de l’Idylle 15 de Théocrite
Aitia, 2023 Theocritus’ Idyll 15th contains an extraordinary bestiary for the attentive reader. If we exclude the Sirens and Mormo, the catalog of animals includes the ant and the elephant, the weasel, the sheep, and baby nightingales, to name a few.Three categories
Myrtille Rémond
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Medievalista, 2021 In this paper, I investigate the relationship between the text and the images in medieval Latin bestiary manuscripts. Medieval bestiaries, which are derived from the ancient Physiologus, comprise a nearly 1800-year-old tradition and have spawned several ...
Ilya Dines
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Le Bestiaire des vidas et razos : dames et troubadours à figure d’animaux
Revue des Langues Romanes, 2021 When they presented and commented poems written by troubadours, from the middle of xiiith century, authors of vidas and razos paid attention to the interesting bestiary of these texts. Mentions of animals are among lyric details that inspired them.
Cécile Le Cornec Rochelois
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Art History, Volume 46, Issue 4, Page 714-748, September 2023., 2023 The most remarkable feature of the Hammelburg Mahzor, a fourteenth‐century German High Holiday book, is the inclusion of zoocephalic figures: humans with beastly heads. The purpose of this essay is to explore the semiotics and phenomenology of this specifically Jewish visual idiom, and to suggest that its presence lies at the intersection of language ...
Elina Gertsman
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Violence, the Subject, and the Beyond: Achille Mbembe and Violence in International Relations Theory
Australian Journal of Politics &History, Volume 69, Issue 3, Page 481-502, September 2023., 2023 A double‐barrelled question underpins this special edition: can International Relations (IR) be decolonised? If so, how? I argue that IR's insistence on more‐or‐less concretised subjects, which engage in dialectical relations of struggle, renders the discipline (and the practice it engenders) constitutionally blind to the origins of colonial violence ...
Keagan Ó Guaire
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Loss of MID in English: Free Peasantry and Their Linguistic Advantage
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 121, Issue 2, Page 251-269, July 2023., 2023 Abstract The paper deals with the mysterious loss of a common preposition MID in the historical development of English. The issue is examined using a quantitative method combined with a historical sociolinguistic focus on the free peasantry in the East Midlands and Kent.
Rongkun Liu
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Iconic Character of Bestiary Images in the Novels of F. Werfel and E. Canetti
Space and Culture, India, 2020 The anthropomorphic depiction of animals bearing allegorical meanings is the well-represented and actively demanded bestiary of world literature. It reflects the mythological thinking of writers and is an integral part of the worldview basis on which ...
Natalya Seibel +3 more
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Curator: The Museum Journal, Volume 66, Issue 3, Page 413-418, July 2023., 2023 Abstract Lion Attacking a Dromedary was a sensational object for its first viewers at the Paris Universal Exposition in 1867. As an entity or thing, it provoked a powerfully visceral response and, as the current essay explores, it remains a difficult object to view or display today.
Maura Coughlin
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Curator: The Museum Journal, Volume 66, Issue 3, Page 493-521, July 2023., 2023 Abstract The diorama Lion Attacking a Dromedary found in the Carnegie Museum of Natural History rightfully belongs to an Orientalist artistic tradition that crystallized many of the discriminatory misrepresentations of people of color that have plagued our society to this day.
Mathilde Sauquet
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