Bestiaries are among the most interesting and varied books of the Middle Ages. Collections of illustrations depicting real and mythical animals and plants accompanied a text which can be traced back to the earliest centuries of the Christian era. Dr. Baxter, employing a complete…
Le cerf vit mille ans. Le sanglier porte ses cornes dans sa bouche. Les papillons sont des fleurs qui volent. L'écureuil est un animal diabolique, paresseux, lubrique, avaricieux. La zoologie médiévale n'est pas la zoologie moderne. Plusieurs notions qui nous sont aujourd'hui fa…
Representations of shapeshifters are prominent in medieval culture and they are particularly abundant in the vernacular literatures of the societies around the North Sea. Some of the figures in these stories remain well known in later folklore and often even in modern media, suc…
Representations of shapeshifters are prominent in medieval culture and they are particularly abundant in the vernacular literatures of the societies around the North Sea. Some of the figures in these stories remain well known in later folklore and often even in modern media, suc…