Animals on the Edge
From Exotic Beasts to Nonhuman Transcendence

Katja Fält (Edited by), Gerhard Jaritz (Foreword by)

9786156696083

Hardback, published 31 December 2023

176 pages, 16 pages of illustrations
21 x 14.8 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg

Was there a horse sense in the medieval period? Why did word-licking dogs inhabit manuscript borders? The seven intriguing articles in this publication explore animals on the edge and the boundaries between humans and animals. These articles provide insights into the discussions in animal studies and medieval studies about the multiple roles of medieval fauna, challenging our understanding of how animals were understood in the Middle Ages. The authors of the articles demonstrate how humans have always constructed animals but also have been constructed by animals. The examples are drawn from manuscripts, fables, textual and visual accounts, as well as material culture. This publication raises interesting aspects about the profound and ambiguous relationship between animals and humans, edges and boundaries, hybridity and anthropomorphism, ideas and identities.

• Foreword by Gerhard Jaritz
• Introduction by Katja Fä
  lt
• CHAPTER 1. Animals on the Edge in NLW MS Peniarth 32 - Coral Lumbley
• CHAPTER 2. The Goat of Scanderbeg - Etleva Lala
• CHAPTER 3. Disguise, Identity, and Horse Sense: The Case of Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne - Antha Cotten-Spreckelmeyer
• CHAPTER 4. Semper asellus erit? Hybrid Animals in Nigel de Longchamps' Speculum stultorum - Maximilian Wick
• CHAPTER 5. Beasts along Boundaries: Elephants in the Medieval West - Kiwako Ogata
• CHAPTER 6. Animals on the Edge of Late Medieval Hebrew Manuscripts - Andrá
  s Borgó
  
• CHAPTER 7. Angela of Foligno, in Love, with Animals - William Robert
• Notes on Contributors