302 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles ; 31 cm
Bibliographic Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-300)
Contents:
Kathryn Starkey and Evelin Wetter -- Animals, Textiles, and Storytelling -- Animals of the Physiologus Represented in Textiles : Their Roles and Functions in Medieval Liturgy / Evelin Wetter -- On Deer and Dragons : Textiles and the Poetics of Medieval Storytelling in König Rother / Kathryn Starkey -- Woven Textiles and Narratives / Regula Schorta -- Animals as Vehicles for Imagination -- Ibi quasi allegorice : ibi tamen ad litteram : Imagined Animals on Naturaʼs Dress in Alan of Lilleʼs De planctu naturae / Michael Stolz -- Fifteenth-Century English and Scots Narrative Contexts for Creatures of the Gaze : The Basilisk and the Caladrius / Margaret Bridges -- Animals as Symbols -- The Hunt for the Unicorn : Ambivalent Representations of a Mythical Figure in Text and Image / Martina Backes -- Flying Westward : Dragons and Phoenixes in Italian Silk Weaving at the Time of Mongolian Rule over Asia / Juliane von Fircks -- Illustrious Monsters : Representations of Griffins on Byzantine Textiles / Anne L. McClanan -- Saints and Wolves in the Middle Ages : Ecclesiastical Discourse, Folklore, and Relationship to the Environment / Laurent Auberson -- Emblems and Devices -- The King of the Beasts : The Appeal of 'Big Cats' in Late Medieval English Heraldry / Maria Hayward -- Heraldic Animals in Wolfram von Eschenbachʼs Parzival / Alissa Theiss -- Medieval Symbols of Virtue and Mutual Devotion : Noble Dogs in Images, Badges, and in Konrad von Würzburgʼs Partonopier and Meliur / Ann Marie Rasmussen -- Animals and Courtly Love -- Animals on Minne Tapestries : Symbols of Lordship and Ornament / Jutta Zander-Seidel -- Animals and the Medieval Art of Love : Carvings on Fifteenth-Century Bone-Saddles / Maria Schröder -- Hunting Culture -- Horns, Falcon Hoods, Books and Tapestries : Hunting Culture in the 1420 Inventoy of John the Fearlesse, Duke of Burgundy / Baudouin Van den Abeele -- Amour dʼoiseaux : Amour de chiens : Practices and Ideals of the Courtly Hunt in Italian Silks of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Century / Kathrin Müller --
Summary:
"Luxury textiles worn by the elites of medieval society often show animals. Their role is not merely decorative, rather they point to specific contents, for instance the privilege of hunting or the concept of courtly love. By incorporating literary texts this volume reveals the cultural-historical dimension of depictions of animals in courtly life. The here assembled papers were presented during a colloquium at the Abegg-Stiftung in 2016. The contributions explore the importance of animals in texts, textiles, and the pictorial arts."-- Publisher's website