- \n
- Aristotle’s biology<\/a>:\n
- \n
- the History of Animals<\/a><\/i>,<\/li>\n
- Generation of Animals<\/a><\/i>,<\/li>\n
- Movement of Animals<\/a><\/i>,<\/li>\n
- Progression of Animals<\/a><\/i>,<\/li>\n
- Parts of Animals<\/a><\/i>, and <\/i><\/li>\n
- On the Soul<\/a><\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
- Bartholomaeus Anglicus \/ Bartholomew the Englishman, De Proprietatibus rerum<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n
- bestiary<\/a><\/li>\n
- bestiaries: [a] list of medieval bestiaries<\/a><\/li>\n
- book of hours<\/a><\/li>\n
- encyclopaedia<\/a><\/li>\n
- Frederick II, De arte venandi cum avibus<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n
- Guillaume le Clerc, Bestiaire divin<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n
- herbal<\/a><\/li>\n
- Hildegard of Bingen, Physica<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n
- illuminated manuscript<\/a><\/li>\n
- Isidore of Seville<\/a>\n
- \n
- Etymologiae<\/a><\/em>\u00a0book XII<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
- fables<\/a>\n
- \n
- ex. Marie de France<\/a> Ysopet<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
- Physiologus<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n
- Pliny the Elder, Naturalis\u00a0historiae<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n
- psalter<\/a><\/li>\n
- Richard de Fournival, Bestiaire d\u2019amours<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n
- Vincent of Beauvais, Speculum naturale<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Some bestiary sources (in English):<\/p>\n
David Badke, ed., The Medieval Bestiary: Animals in the Middle Ages > <\/em><\/a>http:\/\/bestiary.ca<\/a><\/p>\n
Ron Baxter, Bestiaries and their Users in the Middle Ages<\/i> (Thrupp: Sutton Publishing; London: Courtauld Institute, 1998).<\/p>\n
Willene B. Clark, The Medieval Book of Birds: Hugh of Fouilloy\u2019s Aviarium; Edition, Translation and Commentary\u00a0<\/i>(Binghamton, NY: Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, 1992).<\/p>\n
\u2014. A Medieval Book of Beasts: The Second Family Bestiary; Commentary, Art, Text and Translation<\/i>\u00a0(Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2006).<\/p>\n
Meredith Cohen, \u201cThe Bestiary beyond the Book,\u201d in Elizabeth Morrison, ed. Book of Beasts: The Bestiary in the Medieval World,<\/i>\u00a0\u201cPart Three: Beyond the Bestiary\u201d (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2019): 177-83.<\/p>\n
Ilya Dines, \u201cThe function of Latin Bestiaries in Medieval Miscellanies,\u201d in Morrison\u00a0Book of Beasts <\/i>\u201cPart Two: Exploring the Bestiary\u201d (2019): 67-74.<\/p>\n
Larissa Grollemond, \u201cBeasts at Court: Reading the Bestiary in the Late Thirteenth Century,\u201d in Morrison\u00a0Book of Beasts,<\/i>\u00a0\u201cPart Two: Exploring the Bestiary\u201d (2019): 157-74.<\/p>\n
\u2014, \u201cThe Bestiary in the Modern Age,\u201d in Morrison Book of Beasts<\/i>, \u201cEpilogue: Legacy of the Bestiary\u201d (2019): 283-307.<\/p>\n
Debra Hassig, Medieval Bestiaries: Text, Image, Iconography<\/i> (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995).<\/p>\n
\u2014, The Mark of the Beast: The Medieval Bestiary in Art, Life, and Literature<\/i> (New York: Garland, 1999).<\/p>\n
Isidore, Etymologies<\/em>. The Etymologies of Isidore of Seville<\/i>. Trans. Stephen A. Barney, W.J. Lewis, J.A. Beach, and Oliver Berghof. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.<\/p>\n
M.R. James, The Bestiary: Being a Reproduction in Full of the Manuscript Ii.4.26 in the University Library, Cambridge, with Supplementary Plates from other Manuscripts of English Origin, and a Preliminary Study of the Latin Bestiary as Current in England<\/i> (Oxford: Roxburgh Club, 1928).<\/p>\n
Sarah Kay, \u201cThe Textual Kaleidoscope of the Medieval Bestiary,\u201d in\u00a0Morrison\u00a0Book of Beasts\u00a0<\/i>\u201cPart Two: Exploring the Bestiary\u201d (2019): 31-37.<\/p>\n
Florence McCulloch, Medieval Latin and French Bestiaries<\/i> (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1962).<\/p>\n
Elizabeth Morrison, ed. Book of Beasts: The Bestiary in the Medieval World<\/i> (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2019). From the May-August 2019 exhibit of the same name, https:\/\/www.getty.edu\/art\/exhibitions\/bestiary\/<\/a><\/p>\n
\u2014, \u201cAccommodating Antlers, Making Room for Hedgehogs, and Other Problems of Page Design in the Medieval Bestiary,\u201d in Morrison Book of Beasts,<\/i>\u00a0\u201cPart Two: Exploring the Bestiary\u201d (2019): 51-65.<\/p>\n
Emily Steiner, \u201cEncyclopedic Beasts,\u201d in Morrison\u00a0Book of Beasts,<\/i>\u00a0\u201cPart Three: Beyond the Bestiary\u201d (2019): 237-59.<\/p>\n
SOME MEDIEVAL BESTIARIES ONLINE<\/h2>\n
David Badke, The Medieval Bestiary > “Manuscripts by location<\/a>” http:\/\/bestiary.ca\/manuscripts\/manulocshelf.htm<\/a>\u00a0offers a comprehensive list of manuscripts online, by location (ex. Aberdeen) and shelf mark (ex. Univ. lib. MS 24).\u00a0For example: The Aberdeen Bestiary<\/a> (Aberdeen University Library, MS 24)<\/p>\n
Ilya Dines \u201cAppendix 2: List of All Extant Illuminated Latin Bestiaries,\u201d in Morrison Book of Beasts<\/i> (2019): 309.<\/p>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nSOME MODERN BESTIARIES<\/h2>\n
Jorge Luis Borges, The Book of Imaginary Beings<\/em>, trans. Andrew Hurley\u00a0(London: Penguin, 2006); first published in Spanish as Manual de zoolog\u00eda fant\u00e1stica\u00a0<\/i>(1957), expanded to El libro de los seres imaginarios\u00a0<\/i>(1968);\u00a0and see https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Book_of_Imaginary_Beings<\/a>
\n<\/em><\/p>\nAnn VanderMeer, ed. The Bestiary\u00a0<\/em>(Lakewood, CO: Centipede Press, 2015).<\/p>\n
II. ECOCRITICISM AND ANIMAL STUDIES<\/h1>\n
Some Wikipedia articles:<\/p>\n
- \n
- animal studies<\/a><\/li>\n
- anthrozoology<\/a><\/li>\n
- critical animal studies<\/a><\/li>\n
- cryptozoology<\/a><\/li>\n
- ecocriticism<\/a><\/li>\n
- ethnobiology<\/a><\/li>\n
- posthumanism<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Some critical and theoretical works:<\/p>\n
D.L. Ashliman, Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts.<\/i> https:\/\/www.pitt.edu\/~dash\/folktexts.html<\/a>: intersections of folklore, oral culture, anthropology, popular culture, literature (geographically and culturally limited but a starting point)<\/p>\n
Association for the Study of Literature and Environment,\u00a0\u201cDefinitions of ecocriticism archive:\u00a0chronicles the emergence of ecocriticism as a field of study\u2014from the founding of ASLE in the early 1990s to 2009.\u201d\u00a0https:\/\/www.asle.org\/explore-our-field\/ecocriticism-and-environmental-humanities\/definitions-of-ecocriticism-archive\/<\/a>.\u00a0\u201cASLE seeks to inspire and promote intellectual work in the environmental humanities and arts. Our vision is an inclusive community whose members are committed to environmental research, education, literature, art and service, environmental justice, and ecological sustainability.\u201d<\/p>\n
B\u00e9n\u00e9dicte Boisseron, Afro-Dog: Blackness\u00a0and the Animal Question\u00a0<\/i>(New York: Columbia University Press, 2018).<\/p>\n
E. Jane Burns and Peggy McCracken, eds.,\u00a0From Beasts to Souls: Gender and Embodiment in Medieval Europe\u00a0<\/em>(Notre Dame, ID: University of Notre Dame Press, 2013).<\/p>\n
Mel Y. Chen, Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect\u00a0<\/em>(Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2012).<\/p>\n
Sarah Cockram and Andrew Wells, eds., Interspecies Interactions: Animals and Humans between the Middle Ages and Modernity<\/i> (London: Routledge, 2018).<\/p>\n
Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, ed.,\u00a0Monster Theory: Reading Culture<\/em> (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1996).<\/p>\n
\u2014and other works in ecocriticism, ecotheory, and environmental thinking<\/p>\n
Donna Haraway, Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene <\/i>(Durham: Duke University Press, 2016).<\/p>\n
Bruce Holsinger, \u201cOf Pigs and Parchment. Medieval Studies and the Coming of the Animal,\u201d Publications of the Modern Language Association<\/i> 124.2 (2009): 616-23.<\/p>\n
\u2014, \u201cWritten on beasts,” New York Review of Books<\/em> (25 November 2015) at https:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/daily\/2015\/11\/25\/parchment-beasts\/<\/a><\/p>\n
\u2014and other articles about parchment, animal skin, and bioarchaeology: see for example publications list at https:\/\/english.as.virginia.edu\/people\/profile\/bh9n<\/a><\/p>\n
Sarah Kay, \u201cLegible skins: Animals and the ethics of medieval reading,\u201d in postmedieval<\/em> 2.1 “The Animal Turn” (2011), online at https:\/\/link.springer.com\/journal\/41280\/2\/1<\/a><\/p>\n
\u2014Animal Skins and the Reading Self in Medieval Latin and French Bestiaries<\/em> (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017).
\n<\/em><\/p>\nDamien Kempf and Maria L. Gilbert, Medieval Monsters\u00a0<\/i>(London: British Library, 2015).<\/p>\n
Alison Langdon, ed. Animal Languages in the Middle Ages: Representatives of Interspecies Communication<\/i> (New York: Springer, 2018).<\/p>\n
Scott McCloud, Understanding Comics\u00a0<\/em>(New York: HarperCollins, 1993) has\u00a0amongst many things a brilliant section on faces (human, smiley, etc.); see also his other works, Reinventing Comics<\/em>\u00a0(New York: HarperCollins, 2000) and Making Comics\u00a0<\/em>(New York: HarperCollins, 2006).\u00a0Related: the idea (robotics) of the uncanny valley<\/a>.<\/p>\n
Peggy McCracken, In the Skin of a Beast: Sovereignty and Animality in Medieval France<\/em> (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017).<\/p>\n
Peggy McCracken and Karl Steel, eds. postmedieval<\/em> 2.1 “The Animal Turn” (2011): journal special issue, online open access at https:\/\/link.springer.com\/journal\/41280\/2\/1<\/a><\/p>\n
Louisa Mackenzie and Stephanie Posthumus, eds., French Thinking about Animals\u00a0<\/em>(East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2015).<\/p>\n
Asa Mittman, The Ashgate Research Companion to Monsters and the Monstrous\u00a0<\/em>(Abingdon: Routledge: 2013).<\/p>\n
\u2014<\/em>and other works on monsters and monstrosity: see https:\/\/asamittman.wordpress.com\/publications\/<\/a><\/p>\n
Aaron M. Moe, \u00a0Zoopoetics: Animals and the Making of Poetry\u00a0<\/i>(Lanham: Lexington Books, 2014).<\/p>\n
\u0152cologies scholarly resources: medieval > <\/a>https:\/\/oecologies.com\/resources\/scholarly-resources\/#medieval<\/a><\/p>\n
Anselm Oelze, Animal Rationality: Later Medieval Theories 1250-1350. <\/em>Investigating Medieval Philosophy series, vol. 12 (Leiden: Brill, 2018)<\/p>\n
Stephanie Posthumus, French \u00c9cocritique: Reading Contemporary French Theory and Fiction Ecologically<\/em> (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2017).<\/p>\n
RMST 221B \u201cAnimal Reading\u201d resources on Twitter (ecosystemically organised, a.k.a. in no obvious particular order) @Rmst221b<\/a><\/p>\n
\u2013and collected together (with the same parenthetical comment) through the hashtag\u00a0#rmst221b<\/a> (which also includes things that I forgot to talk about in class; consider them outtakes…)<\/p>\n
Joyce E. Salisbury, The Beast Within: Animals in the Middle Ages,<\/i> 2nd ed. (Abingdon: Routledge, 2011).<\/p>\n
Karl Steel, How to Make a Human: Animals and Violence in the Middle Ages\u00a0<\/em>(Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2011).<\/p>\n
\u2014How Not to Make a Human: Pets, Feral Children, Worms, Sky Burial, Oysters\u00a0<\/em>(Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, December 2019).<\/p>\n
\u2014more animal studies, posthumanism, and biopolitics: https:\/\/www.brooklyn.cuny.edu\/web\/academics\/faculty\/faculty_profile.jsp?faculty=675<\/a><\/p>\n
- anthrozoology<\/a><\/li>\n
- Physiologus<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n
- fables<\/a>\n
- Generation of Animals<\/a><\/i>,<\/li>\n
- the History of Animals<\/a><\/i>,<\/li>\n