Klingender Francis. Animals in Art and Thought: To the End of the Middle Ages 2/2

Routledge, 2019. — 612 p. — ISBN: 0367206366, 9780367206369. — Evelyn Antal, John P. Harthan (editors).Part 1 /file/3087778/Originally published in 1971, Animals in Art and Thought discusses the ways in which animals have been used by man in art and literature. The book looks at how they have been used to symbolise religious, social and political beliefs, as well as their pragmatic use by hunters, sportsmen, and farmers. The book discusses these various attitudes in a survey which ranges from prehistoric cave art to the later Middle Ages. The book is especially concerned with uncovering the latent, as well as the manifest meanings of animal art, and presents a detailed examination of the literary and archaeological monuments of the periods covered in the book. The book discusses the themes of Creation myths of the pagan and Christian religion, the contribution of the animal art of the ancient contribution of the animal art of the ancient Orient to the development of the Romanesque and gothic styles in Europe, the use of beast fables in social or political satire, and the heroic associations of animals in medieval chivalry.Editors' Foreword and Acknowledgments
Author's Preface
Photographic Acknowledgments
The Ancient World
The hunter's art and mythology
The rock paintings and engravings
The mythology of the hunter's ritual
Animal art in the ancient near east
The neolithic revolution
Continuity and change in ritual
North Africa and Egypt
Western Asia
Contrasting patterns of spirituality: the New Year festivals
Contrasting types of animal imagery
Gilgamesh and the beast-man Enkidu
The monuments
Prehistoric pottery in Asia and Egypt
Sumerian animal art
Egyptian animal art
Assyrian and Minoan animal art
Animal art in the civilizations of Greece and Rome
The classical style sequence
The transition from magic to symbolism
Barbaric animal styles
The barbaric style sequence
The Jemdet Nasr seals
The bronzes of Luristan
The Scythian animal style
Early Celtic art
Germanic animal ornament
Hiberno-Saxon manuscripts and crosses
Viking art
Symbolic associations
The social setting
Pre-heroic animal associations in barbaric art
Animal associations of the hero
The convergence of Christian and heroic animal symbolism
The early Middle Ages
The Carolingian RenaissanceThe Hexaemeron tradition
Typology
The monuments
Late Anglo-Saxon animal art: the 'Caedmon' and 'Aelfric' manuscripts
Germany, France and Spain, c. 950-1050; the Apocalyptic tradition
Schools of illumination c. A.D. 1000
The Apocalyptic tradition
Apocalyptic animal symbols and their oriental sources
The pictorial tradition
Byzantium and Italy
The Macedonian renaissance
Rome, Monte Cassino, Sicily and Venice
Romanesque and early Gothic animal artThe survival of the oriental 'heraldic' style
Romanesque adaptations of the oriental 'heraldic' style
Apulia
Lombardy
Lombard animal imagery in Germany
Manuscript sources of Romanesque animal ornament
Spain and Languedoc
Beast imagery in the Norman and Angevin realms
The symbolic character of Romanesque and early Gothic animal ornament
The later Middle Ages
The scientific revival and the beast fables
The scientific revival
The Latin phase
The transformation of the bestiary text
Greek science retrieved through the Arabs
Adelard of Bath
Giraldus Cambrensis
Thirteenth century zoology
Popular science
Alexander Neckam
Bartholomew the Englishman
Fables and beast satires
Twelfth century fable collections
Nigel Wireker's Speculum Stultorum [Mirror of Fools)
Odo of Cheriton and the Latin sermon collections
The Owl and the Nightingale
The Fox and the Wolf
Political satires of the fourteenth century
William Langland
John Gower
ChaucerEnglish animal art of the later Middle Ages
The bestiary illustrations
Gothic animal art
Manuscripts of the thirteenth century: initials and margins
Birds of the Apocalypse
Manuscripts of the fourteenth century: Psalters and Books of Hours
The Pepysian sketchbook
Naturalism in England and Italy
Domestic art: the Longthorpe Tower
Popular art: roof bosses and misericords
Continental animal art of the later Middle AgesSt. Francis's sermon to the birds and the Christmas presepio
Frederick II's treatise 'De arte venandi cum avibus'
Animal identifications in chivalry
Heraldry
Courtly love
Courtly hunting rites
Conclusion: the movement towards naturalism
Epilogue
NotesGeneral index
Index of animals