Companion Species
eBook - ePub

Companion Species

Saints, Animals and Ordinary Humans in the Middle Ages

  1. 312 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Companion Species

Saints, Animals and Ordinary Humans in the Middle Ages

About this book

This book explores the connection between saints and animals, and how the power over animals has been a characteristic of saints from their beginnings in the Early Church.

The connection between saints and humans is examined, with the saint as a human rising beyond humanity, touching the divine, and the non-human animal as a creature, which is connected to and yet removed from humanity and which may have a connection to the sacred itself. This volume transcends traditional religious boundaries by including Christian saints as well as similar figures in Islam and Norse religions. It operates on the cusp of two exciting and innovative fields: hagiographic and animal studies. It shows the complexities of human-animal interaction and the sacred: authorities clashing with experiential knowledge, metaphorical animals as opposed to real, animals ranging from helpers or opponents of saints, disguises of demons, or identity markers of a human community.

Companion Species will be of value to scholars and students interested in medieval history, Europe, and religion, as well as social and cultural history.

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Yes, you can access Companion Species by Mathilde van Dijk in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in History & European Medieval History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2024
eBook ISBN
9781040257517
Topic
History
Subtopic
European Medieval History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Table of Contents
  6. List of figures
  7. List of tables
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. List of contributors
  10. 1 Introduction
  11. 2 Canes Domini?: ‘Saint’ Guinefort, popular devotion, hierarchies, and animalitĂ©
  12. 3 Contested popular rituals in late-medieval Italy: Franciscan saints and animal baptism
  13. 4 HundheiĂ°inn and Heathen Hounds: dogs and the authority of saints in Old Norse literature
  14. 5 Wondrous birds in Old Norse-Icelandic literature
  15. 6 Wonderful animals in the biographies of the Prophet Muáž„ammad
  16. 7 ‘Too large for calm consumption’: spiders as silken saviours and venomous villains in the medieval lives of saints
  17. 8 ‘I am like the cat’: human–animal encounters in Devotio Moderna biographies
  18. 9 Saints and animals on medieval seals: a religious bestiary for moral purposes and identity
  19. 10 Martinus vs. Lupus: Martin of Tours as a protector against wolves in European folkways and folklore
  20. 11 Holy Cat! Virtuous felines, medieval saints and their appropriations
  21. Index