Breaking and Shaping Beastly Bodies: Animals as Material Culture in the Middle Ages

Pluskowski, Aleksander

ISBN 10: 1842172182 / ISBN 13: 9781842172186

Edité par Oxbow Books, 2007

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Synopsis :

An important human trait is our inclination to develop complex relationships with numerous other species. In the great majority of cases however, these mutualistic relationships involve a pair of species, whose co-evolution has been achieved through behavioural adaptation driving positive selection pressures. Humans go a step further, opportunistically and, it sometimes seems, almost arbitrarily elaborating relationships with many other species, whether through domestication, pet-keeping, taming for menageries, deifying, pest-control, conserving iconic species, or recruiting as mascots. When we consider medieval attitudes to animals we are tackling a fundamentally human, and distinctly idiosyncratic, behavioural trait. The sixteen papers presented here investigate animals from zoological, anthropological, artistic and economic perspectives, within the context of the medieval world.

À propos de l?auteur: edited by Aleksander Pluskowski

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Breaking and Shaping Beastly Bodies: Animals...
Éditeur : Oxbow Books
Date d'édition : 2007
Reliure : Couverture souple
Etat : Very Good